Word: beirutization
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...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
...said, "You hiccup in Beirut, and it's on the living room screen in Keokuk, Iowa. That fundamentally changes the audience for news...
Believing that the main event may be over, Fukuyama depicts whatever troubles lie ahead as little more than nuisances, devoid of ideological content and context, therefore lacking historical standing. That notion adds insult to the injuries of the masses starving in Africa and Asia, the basement dwellers of Beirut and the victims of narco-terror in Latin America. While the prospects for capitalism and democracy may look pretty good from Japan, Italy, Holland and France, where translations of Fukuyama's article will soon appear, they are less bright in places like Peru and Bangladesh -- and even Mexico and Israel...
...seem bent on the same deadly gambit: Damascus hopes the violence will turn Christians against Aoun; the Maronite leader hopes it will bring intervention from the West against Syria. Meantime, it is the people of Lebanon who continue to suffer, particularly those -- Muslim and Christian alike -- who live in Beirut, where the shells have killed almost 800 and wounded over 2,000 since March. The fortunate have fled, paring the city's population from 1.5 million to just 150,000. Those who remain huddle by night in airless underground shelters, listening to the sounds of destruction. Those who venture...
Solidarity, long an outlaw, forms a new coalition to take over from the bankrupt regime in Warsaw, but the army and the police remain under Communist , control. Eyeing each other, Washington and Moscow promise to let Poland be Poland. -- Beirut's battling factions threaten finally to murder the city itself...