Word: beirutization
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...celebration, however, was mixed with restraint, as if the country understood that it had won a small victory in a larger war with no end yet in sight. Late last week another skirmish in that war may have taken place. In | Beirut, the Shi'ite terrorist group known as Islamic Jihad distributed blurred photographs purporting to show the body of U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, kidnaped 18 months ago. The State Department was skeptical of the claim...
...view, it was crucial to keep the Achille Lauro from docking anywhere. Seared into the memory of Administration officials was last June's TWA hijacking ordeal. When the captured jetliner was allowed to land at Beirut airport, its Shi'ite hijackers were able to disperse their 37 hostages into the surrounding urban slums, dragging out the kidnaping drama for 17 days. This time Administration crisis managers were also thinking that a rescue in international waters would be far easier than one in Syria or Lebanon...
...Buckley's death was still unconfirmed at week's end, but it dashed any hopes that he and five other Americans held hostage by Shi'ite extremists might soon be released unharmed. The announcement came only five days after the U.S.S.R. for the first time fell victim to Beirut's endemic lawlessness. Terrorists abducted four Soviet diplomats from their cars in separate West Beirut incidents and later shot one of them dead. It was the first confirmed killing among the more than 30 foreigners kidnaped in Beirut for political reasons in the past 18 months. At least 17 remain missing...
Syria immediately sought assistance from its allies in Beirut to secure the release of the hostages. On Wednesday an anonymous caller phoned Western news agencies with word that one of the Soviets had been killed. "We have carried out God's sentence against one of the hostages," he said, "and we shall execute the others, one after another, if the atheistic campaign against Islamic Tripoli does not stop." Another caller warned that the Soviet embassy in Beirut would be blown up if it was not evacuated within 48 hours. A short time later, a passerby found the bloodstained body...
...chances. On Friday they evacuated more than 100 embassy dependents and nonessential staff to Damascus, where they were to be flown back to Moscow. The bus and truck convoy that transported the frightened Soviets was guarded by heavily armed Lebanese Communist and Druze militiamen. A well-informed source in Beirut said that the Soviets may have trained some Druze fighters and now have a sizable KGB station in Mukhtara, the mountain home of Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt...