Word: beirutization
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...with their lusty self-assurance; who shop at Benetton's and Bergdorf's, have plenty of style, plenty of clothes; who do not leave home without American Express. But they do leave home. Breezy, noisy, they lope about the fashionable streets like flocks of orphans in Brazil or in Beirut, like the earth's poorest children -- hanging out, swooping into saloons where no one looks twice at the doctored ID cards; the kids' money is good. Don't blame the saloonkeepers, say the sociologists. Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they...
...brave cadre of Europeans and Americans still living in West Beirut face the daily prospect of being kidnaped, knowing that at best they might spend months in isolated captivity, and at worst their bodies might be found somewhere in the bombed-out city's rubble. Last week one potential hostage managed to avoid such a fate...
...first time Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, appeared in a filmed appeal since he was abducted in Moslem west Beirut on March...
Both Anderson and Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, spoke bitterly of the contrast between Washington's handling of the Daniloff case and that of the American hostages in Lebanon...
Anderson referred by name to Islamic Jihad's third American hostage, Thomas Sutherland, 55, acting dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut. Why Sutherland did not appear on the tape was not explained...