Word: beirutization
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...BEIRUT, Lebanon--American hostage Jesse Turner said on a videotape yesterday that fellow American captive Alann Steen is dying, and he urged the United States and Israel to accept the terms for Steen's release...
...know that our fellow Alann Steen is dying," Turner said in a five-minute videotape delivered to the offices of the leftist daily newspaper As-Safir in Moslem West Beirut...
Steen, Turner and two other teachers--Robert Polhill, 53, of New York City, and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, an Indian who is a legal resident alien of the United States--were abducted January 24 from the Beirut: University College campus in west Beirut. Steen, 47, is from Boston, and Turner, 39, from Boise, Idaho...
...independent Beirut newspaper An-Nahar yesterday quoted Paul Blanc, the new French ambassador, as saying: "Although we care for the hostages and think daily about contacts and means we could resort to in order to secure their safe release, we refuse to be slaves to the kidnappers to which many of our compatriots fell victim...
...other Lebanon developments, six people were reported killed in a new outburst of fighting between Shiite Moslem militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas yesterday around a Beirut refugee camp...