Word: beirutization
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...needed any further hallmarks, several hundred people gathered at a church service in Georgetown to remember American Hostage Terry Anderson, 40, on the third anniversary of his kidnaping in West Beirut, a poignant reminder of the frustrations that underlay one leg of the Iran-contra affair...
...agents kicked his feet out from under him and fractured both his wrists while slapping on a pair of handcuffs. Fawaz Younis, 28, who had been lured aboard the yacht last September with promises of a drug deal, was wanted for leading the hijacking of a Jordanian airliner at Beirut International Airport in 1985. He was then transported to a U.S. Navy ship, where he was interrogated nine times in four days. Not surprisingly, Younis confessed to the hijacking...
Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestinian guerrilla group, Fatah, said in a statement in Beirut that "the driver had an accident and the car crashed into a power pole about 30 minutes before the time set for the bomb to explode...
...communique telephoned to The Associated Press office in west Beirut, Fatah said its military command "instructed the Limassol martyrs group to park a bomb-laden car in front of the Hilton Hotel in Jerusalem targeting Shultz, the messenger of imperialism...
...brutal methods. In 1982 he was the chief architect of a peace plan that failed dismally, underscoring for him the futility of well-intentioned initiatives in a conflict poisoned by four decades of hatred and mistrust. In 1983 the death, of 241 U.S. servicemen in their bombed-out Beirut headquarters showed him the dangers of direct intervention. Returning from the region last October, Shultz seemed ready to wash his hands of the whole mess...