Word: beirutization
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...agree with the idea of sending the multinational force, a non-U.N. group that included U.S. Marines, into Beirut to help patch Lebanon back together again...
...true. What about the bombing of my residence in Tunis ((in 1985)) -- four buildings destroyed, 74 killed, 122 wounded. And the same during the Beirut fighting ((in 1982)). They tried to snipe at me by airplane. ((Israeli General Ariel)) Sharon said, "We will get him." But he did not succeed...
...usual, photographs and press releases preceded the hostage release. First came a picture of two of the four professors abducted 20 months ago from Beirut University College, along with a message that one of the four would be freed. Then came a picture of all four, three of them apparently bidding a smiling farewell to Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian-born business professor who had lived in the U.S. for 18 years before moving to Beirut. Sure enough, shortly after 10 p.m. last Monday his captors dropped off Singh in front of the former Kuwait embassy in southern Beirut. Placed...
...remains a citizen of India and may have been something of an embarrassment to his captors. The U.S. State Department at first hoped that at least one more of the academic prisoners would be set free, largely because Syrian officials promised that "an American" would be coming out of Beirut. When none appeared, some State Department hostage experts concluded that no further prisoners are likely to be released until a new Administration comes to power. In Paris former Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr claimed that secret arms-for-hostages negotiations were taking place between Iran and Americans. Secretary of State George...
...Rourke pops up in the middle of Beirut's factional bloodlettings, Israel's civil strife and South Korea's ritualized clashes between students and police. The camouflage uniforms of Syrian commandos are peach and purple, which "must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses." On Sandinistas as an attraction for junketeers: "There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts...