Word: beirutization
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...week, some Cabinet ministers and Knesset members called on the government to establish a commission of inquiry similar to the one headed by Israel's late Chief Justice, Yitzhak Kahan, in 1982-83 to investigate the massacre of Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. Shamir dismissed their demands as "hysterical and unjustified." When former Foreign Minister Abba Eban pressed doggedly for such an investigation, Shamir urged caution. "Certain people generate echoes when they speak," Shamir told Eban, "and hence they should think twice before making a declaration." Later, when Eban announced that the Knesset's seven...
VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--Friends, colleagues and relatives expressed hope for the release of Terry Anderson and frustration at the continued imprisonment of the American journalist snatched off a Beirut street two years ago yesterday...
...from total defeat at the hands of an alliance of leftist Lebanese Muslims and the Palestine Liberation Organization, thereby disrupting the country's delicate balance of power. The Syrians ended up fighting the Christians they had come to save, suffered heavy casualties, and had to pull out of the Beirut area in a hurry after the Israelis invaded Lebanon...
This time a worried Assad decided to occupy West Beirut, the predominantly Muslim half of the divided Lebanese capital, because of what he regarded as an ominous series of threats to Syria's long-term strategic interests. In the first place he was concerned about the renewed strength of the P.L.O. in West Beirut, especially in the refugee camps of Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh. More specifically, he was angry about the resurgence of P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, with whom Assad has been feuding for years. The one good thing about Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, from Assad...
WORLD: Syrian forces enter West Beirut...