Word: beirutization
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Terry A. Anderson and David Jacobsen made their appeal in a 10-minute tape delivered to the Beirut offices of two Western news agencies by Islamic Jihad, the organization holding them. They also said hostage William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat kidnapped in March 1984, had been killed in captivity...
...BEIRUT, Lebanon--Two Americans held by Shiite Moslem zealots since early 1985 asked the Reagan Adminstration on a videotape yesterday to work as hard for their freedom as it did to get Nicholas Daniloff out of the Soviet Union...
...nervous public mood was reflected in the headlines that hit newsstands. PARIS PANIC! screamed Le Matin. PARIS-BEIRUT, read Le Parisien Libere. Over the next few days the parallel with the Middle East nightmare was eerily driven home as militant Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims fired on French peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, and Colonel Christian Goutierre, 54, the French military attache in Beirut, was gunned down. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed by the Revenge and Justice Front, a group that has no known links to the C.S.P.P.A...
...investigating the attempted hijacking of a Pan American airliner in Karachi two weeks ago nor Turkish police probing the massacre of 21 worshipers at a synagogue in Istanbul had yet announced the identity of the perpetrators or their mentors. In Lebanon, meanwhile, gunmen kidnaped two more Americans in West Beirut, bringing to six the number of U.S. citizens who, along with a dozen foreigners of other nationalities, are believed to be held hostage in that country by various terrorist groups. And in southern Lebanon, after Palestinian guerrillas attempted to infiltrate Israel in a rubber dinghy, Israeli warplanes attacked a suspected...
...Beirut, an Arabic statement siged by the Committee for Soldiarity threatened to launch attacks in the United States...