Word: beirutization
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...threat. Islamic Jihad issued a vow to seek revenge against "all those who take part in strong and ferocious campaigns against Islam." The statement was accompanied by a Polaroid photograph of the three American hostages, Alann Steen, Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner, who were kidnaped from the campus of Beirut University College more than two years ago. But the communique made no new threats against their lives. In Bombay, 10,000 anti-Rushdie protesters rampaged through the streets until police moved in. When the rioters would not disperse, the police opened fire, killing 13 and injuring more than...
...back from its post-Viet Nam allergy to intervention. He established his bona fides as tough guy so thoroughly that, unlike Carter, he was largely immune to political damage when terrorists demonstrated in bloody fashion just how vulnerable the country still is. Two hundred forty-one servicemen died in Beirut, and 259 people were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 went down last month. In the Tehran crisis that destroyed Carter, the hostages survived...
...doctor, I feel one should go where one is needed," says Dr. Swee Ang, 40, a physician from Singapore who was working at the Sabra refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut at the time of the 1982 massacre by Phalangist militiamen. After surviving the ordeal, she returned to Britain to marshal support for the Palestinians before resuming work at Bourj al-Barajneh, another refugee camp in Beirut. "I'd seen how the Palestinians had suffered," she says, "and to abandon them after that and not do something would have been a crime...
...determine if any of the victims had suspicious associations or could have unwittingly carried the bomb onto the plane. Officials last week discounted a theory that Arab terrorists surreptitiously planted explosives in the luggage of Khalid Jafaar, a Lebanese-born student who had been visiting his grandfather in Beirut; Jafaar's suitcase was recovered intact...
...Shultz ignored so much contrary advice? "This decision," explained one of his senior aides, "was a reflection of Shultz's deep psyche." Associates point to his long-avowed vendetta against terrorism. A friend, Robert Ames, was among the dead in the truck bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Schultz was singled out by anonymous terrorists as the target of a car bomb placed near a Jerusalem hotel where he was staying in March...