Word: beirutization
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...cars skidded to a halt near Beirut's Summerland Hotel. Two men, dazed and disheveled, emerged. They turned out to be Jean-Louis Normandin, a French television technician who was kidnaped in March 1986, and Roger Auque, a journalist seized last January. Normandin had been held by the pro-Iran Revolutionary Justice Organization, but Auque's abductors may have belonged to another group...
...maps and covering flower shows" for a provincial newspaper. An itch to see the world soon sent him off to Africa, where he spent eleven years winging around that vast continent, covering wars and revolutions. In 1982 he joined TIME as Nairobi bureau chief. He was later based in Beirut and Cairo, using a score of airlines in a dozen countries during nearly three years of reporting on the Middle East...
...plot gets rolling in the fall of 1969 when an idealistic young CIA agent named Tom Rogers reports for duty in the "enchanted city" of Beirut. "It was a city of confluence, where two cultures -- East and West -- met to produce a steaming and sensuous vortex, like the collision of two ocean currents." The only shadow on this idyllic scene is the restive presence of the Palestinians, and keeping tabs on them and their leaders becomes Tom's job. Before long he establishes a tenuous contact with Jamal Ramlawi, a handsome, brooding young man reputed to be a rising star...
...colleagues in Lebanon slowly discover themselves embroiled in a game with no recognizable rules. After a possibly dangerous mission early in his tenure there, Rogers remarks, "Nobody in the Middle East would dare harm a representative of the United States." This is before the car bombs start blowing Beirut apart...
AMERICA'S GULF strategy bears a frightening resemblance to its tragic attempt to bring peace to Beirut in 1982. Both then and now the White House committed America's prestige and credibility without defining its goals, let alone the best means to achieve them. There is little indication from the White House of an end to be achieved in the Gulf, or of a recalulcation of our reason for being there in light of the evidence that our presence seems to be helping the Iranians. And our forces in the area are sadly ill-suited for their job: multibillion dollar...