Word: beirutization
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...Druze and Muslim forces, victors in a fresh outburst of fighting in Lebanon's ten-year-old civil war, put the torch to the plundered shops, homes and schools of Christians. Throughout the week, as militiamen from at least three different factions took over the region, residents of Beirut and Sidon drove into the villages to join in the looting. They loaded their cars and pickup trucks with furniture and clothing, raided vegetable gardens and stripped an entire banana plantation before returning home. Some shawled women squatted in doorways, laying claim to the possessions inside and, in some cases, even...
Meanwhile, potential political troubles were averted in Lebanon. Prime Minister Rashid Karami, who stepped down from his post two weeks ago to protest a battle between various Muslim groups for control of West Beirut, withdrew his resignation. The move should stabilize the government, but fierce factional fighting continued around the southern port city of Sidon...
DIED. Yitzhak Kahan, 72, former justice and president (1977-83) of Israel's Supreme Court, known for his broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...explosive day in April 1975, Christian militiamen ambushed a Palestinian bus in East Beirut, killing 37 passengers. That action is generally recognized as the incident that sparked the civil war. The present government of "national unity," set up last year under Syrian aegis, is virtually powerless, and the country continues to be beset by sectarian fighting, most seriously last week around the southern port city of Sidon. There, for the third week in a row, Christian militiamen battled Muslim units of the Lebanese Army and Muslim irregulars...
Among the weary Lebanese, there are few who see much hope. "If you had told / me ten years ago that the war would go on for a decade, I wouldn't have believed it," says a Christian publisher in East Beirut. "Tell me now that it will continue for another ten years, and I will merely shrug. We're numb...