Word: beirutization
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...claiming to be associated with the Hizballah, are holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their fate...
...three-day visit to the gulf. So they were not overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly to the departure gate...
...Iranian factions of militant Lebanese Shi'ites appeared to be in agreement with the hijackers' tactics. A man claiming to represent Islamic Jihad, a shadowy group that is thought to be an umbrella organization for various terrorists in the region, called a news agency in Beirut to deny responsibility for the hijacking. He expressed support for the terrorists but urged them "not to get the Islamic Republic involved in the case." The Iranian government's best hope for ending the siege, perhaps, would have been to enlist the mullahs and other influential Shi'ite leaders...
...after their leader, Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, had been assassinated. He told of a conversation with an Israeli soldier who warned him "something ugly is happening in the city" just as Phalangist militiamen were killing 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. He told of an agitated Israeli general knocking on his door in Tel Aviv late one night to express his concern that Israeli officers had known of the atrocities but remained silent...
...seven days during the past two weeks, TIME Correspondent David Halevy took the stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to recount in vivid detail what he saw and heard-and felt and believed-while he covered the ravaged precincts of Beirut and the troubled ruling circles of Israel before and after the 1982 massacre. Halevy's highly personal account was required because his credibility and state of mind are principal issues in a $50 million libel suit brought by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME...