Word: beirutization
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...embassy annex in East Beirut is severely damaged by a car bomb; two Americans are killed...
...Navy attack planes are shot down over Lebanon. One pilot is killed; Lieut. Robert Goodman is captured by Syrian forces (a month later, he is released). Later that day, nine Marines are fatally wounded during a heavy-artillery attack on their observation post near Beirut airport...
Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, is assassinated as he steps off the elevator near his office in the university administration building. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility...
...Beirut station chief William Buckley, kidnaped March 16, 1984, dies in captivity. The body is never released. On Oct. 4, 1985, Islamic Jihad announce that it killed...
American Navy diver Robert Stethem is beaten and shot aboard hijacked TWA Flight 847, and his body is dumped on the tarmac at Beirut airport. Thirty- nine other American passengers and crew are held hostage for 17 days...