Word: beirutization
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...brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser...
...prisoner exchange played itself out, Lebanon once again was in turmoil. In Beirut, Shi'ite militiamen battled with Palestinians for control of three Palestinian refugee camps on the southern edge of the city, two of them Sabra and Shatila, where the infamous 1982 massacre took place. In the Christian eastern sector of the capital, a car bomb of unexplained origin killed 55 people and wounded 176. In Cairo, in the meantime, the Egyptian government announced that it had narrowly averted the car bombing of a diplomatic mission, presumed to be the U.S. embassy. And in Kuwait late last week...
Amal militiamen invaded three refugee camps south of Beirut expecting an easy victory, but they ran into fierce resistance. After several days of combat, an estimated 350 people had been killed and nearly 1,600 wounded. Amal Leader Nabih Berri asserted that P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat had provoked the clashes in order to stage a "theatrical return to the south, something we will not permit." In Jordan, where he had been meeting with King Hussein, Arafat called for an end to the battle, which he blamed on his enemies the Syrians...
...midst of the fighting in West Beirut, a car bomb was detonated in Christian East Beirut, killing the driver and 55 passersby, including ten children who were trapped in a blazing bus. No organization claimed responsibility for the blast, the worst in East Beirut since the one that killed President-elect Bashir Gemayel in September...
...eight years as ambassador, Lewis recalled for Israeli television a December 1981 meeting between Sharon and Philip Habib, then the U.S. special envoy in the Middle East. The session was held six months before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Sharon, said Lewis, outlined plans for invading Lebanon and taking Beirut, leaving Habib and other Americans present "rather dumbfounded." According to Lewis, Habib told Sharon that the idea "was an unthinkable proposition as far as the U.S. Government was concerned...