Word: beirutization
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GROWING up in the Boston area, I always heard wild things about the Combat Zone. When I first learned of the term "combat zone" around age 5, I believed it to be a local version of West Beirut, with kaffeyedguerrillas running around throwing hand grenades and machine-gunning people...
When Israel began bombing Beirut in 1982, Kalb said, "the American press' fascination with Israel...started to turn sour." Ever since, the media has reflected a distinct anti-Israel bias, Kalb said...
Singh's wife, Lalmoney, is in Beirut and Singh, 60, will be turned over to the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Edward Djerejian, Oakley said...
...release came after kidnappers holding Singh and three American teachers said they would free one of their captives at the west Beirut headquarters of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees...
...announcement that a hostage would be freed from Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine came in a 36-word handwritten statement in Arabic delivered to a western news agency in Beirut...