Word: beirutization
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...mountains above Beirut, artillery thundered, but the 3,000 people assembled at Beirut's Palace of Peace race track scarcely paid heed to the rumble: they had come to enjoy an afternoon of horse racing at the oval, which had opened in September after being closed during more than two years of warfare and unrest. Everything went well until the third race, when the four favorite horses fell at the start, thereby enabling a 91-to-1 long shot named Commodore to romp home as the winner. At that, hundreds of losing bettors swarmed onto the track, trampling over fences...
Perhaps the most chilling image was the truck bomb, with its driver and vehicle wired to explode to kingdom come. In September, the rig came hurtling at the U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut, but a well-aimed shot by a bodyguard caused it to blow up short of its main target and kept casualties low. Religious fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums...
Sharon contends that TIME libeled him in its Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of some 700 Arabs, mainly Palestinians, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. The murders, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan, found that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance." The commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and bore...
...nine hostages, including two Americans, who were found tied to their seats. Four Arabic-speaking hijackers, thought to be linked to the same pro-Khomeini Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist groups that some U.S. officials believe carried out murderous bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, were arrested without a struggle in the midnight raid...
Assume that at the basic minimum the process of diminishing requires a state of grief. Is it really possible to grieve for any person's death? A year ago in Lebanon, a fanatic drove a truck bomb into the Marine compound at Beirut International Airport, killing 241. We responded to those deaths, all right; Americans grieving for Americans. The truck driver also died in the explosion. Any grief left over for him? What about all the Lebanese who have been dropping in the streets for a decade? Feel those deaths, do we? We say yes sincerely, but we only...