Word: beirutization
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State-run Beirut radio said bombs and rockets killed four people and wounded 10 at the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp on the city's southeastern outskirts...
...Shiite Moslem militia commander said the two pilots bailed out and landed in an olive grove, one alive and one dead. Abu Jamil Ghaddar of the Amal militia said the survivor was captured in the grove between Siroubieh and Anqoun, suburbs of this city 25 miles south of Beirut...
...deal promptly increased pressure on the Administration to negotiate freedom for the kidnaped Americans being held hostage in Lebanon. Two of the hostages, Terry Anderson and David Jacobsen, made a videotape that was delivered to news offices in Beirut by Islamic Jihad, the extremist group holding them, and played on American TV last Friday. Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press, contrasted "2 1/2 years of empty talk and refusals to act on the part of the Reagan Administration" in his case with the "propaganda and bombast with which that Administration solved the problem of Mr. Daniloff...
David Hirst, 50, a correspondent for Britain's daily Guardian, was hauled into a black BMW by three gunmen in Muslim West Beirut when the taxi in which he was riding stopped with a flat tire. Blindfolded and with a gun at his temple, Hirst shouted and kicked to attract attention as he was driven through the city, ignoring a gunman's threats to shoot him if he did not desist. "I tried to make as much noise as I could, especially when the car stopped or slowed down at traffic jams," he recounted...
...stopped in a southern suburb, Hirst, who had succeeded in removing the blindfold, forced the door open and escaped. "When I ran away, they did not shoot," he marveled. Hirst, who then grabbed a taxi back to town, says he has not decided whether to stay in Beirut...