Word: beirutization
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...Israel's politics remains in Arab hands. An Arab initiative, or at least willingness, to start negotiations would bring new Israeli elections. But such a move looks unlikely, and there is little U.S. diplomacy with either side to promote one. Since the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, the U.S. has basically backed a stalemate in the Arab-Israel conflict...
...Beirut, the pro-Syrian magazine Al-Shiraa said a U.S. envoy, former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, went to Tehran to discuss Iranian support for terrorist groups and that U.S. military spare parts were provided to encourage Tehran to cease such support...
...unusual target. Edward Austin Tracy, 55, a writer of erotic love poetry, was kidnaped last week in Muslim West Beirut by a pro-Iranian Shi'ite group calling itself the Revolutionary Justice Organization. Tracy, who was accused of being a U.S. spy, became the seventh American and 20th foreign hostage in Lebanon...
...group did not say how long it has been holding Tracy, who has not been seen for two months, or what it wanted for his release. Tracy, a Vermont resident who went to Beirut in the late 1970s and claimed to have converted to Islam, seemed oblivious to the danger he faced as an American there. Said an acquaintance: "He operated on a different plane from other mortals...
...Western reproach by carefully covering its terrorist tracks. Circumstantial evidence could be found of Syrian links to dozens of actions, including the bombing of a TWA plane over Greece last April, attacks at the Vienna and Rome airports last December and the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in October 1983. But solid proof has been hard to come by, which has allowed Assad to assert his innocence. Just three weeks ago, in an interview with TIME editors, he insisted that "no terrorist acts are carried out from Syria, by Syrians or others...