Word: beirutization
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ANSA said she may have boarded a Middle East Airlines flight to Beirut, Lebanon, shortly after arriving in Athens...
...Palestinian group, Arab Revolutionary Cells, claimed responsibility for the bombing in an anonymous telephone call to a Western news agency in Beirut, Lebanon...
Throughout the Middle East, it was a bad week for the forces of moderation. In Beirut, four French television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq...
...fondness for violent action always produced a hot response in its watchers. Sometimes it does: the picture of police dogs in Alabama changed history. But repeated scenes of snipers ducking around doorways in Belfast eventually generate a feeling that this is an interminable quarrel. The endless car bombings in Beirut, the sight of young armed soldiers, arouse the feeling that we just do not belong in Lebanon...
Finally, there are those unanswered questions that never seem to get settled and never seem to go away. Their very place names cast a pall--Belfast, Beirut, Cyprus--reflecting irreconcilable enmities that have existed for centuries. In other places around the world, stabilized injustice seems to be slowly giving way to whatever will follow. For long periods, this movement may only be measurable by the hour hand of history, but journalism feels compelled to note every ticktock of the second hand. The reader returns from a month's vacation to find Jordan's King Hussein still fretting over whether...