Word: beirutization
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...time of last week's bombing, however, the building was still under construction and some of the planned security measures had not been completed. According to reports from Washington, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency recently concluded that security at embassy installations in the East Beirut area was inadequate and that the buildings were vulnerable to terrorist attack. A separate report by the General Accounting Office, the investigative and auditing arm of Congress, faulted the State Department for the way it had managed its "security-enhancement program" for embassies in the region. Late last week Senator Charles Percy of Illinois...
When the bomb went off in East Beirut, workmen were preparing to install a steel gate near the dragon's teeth that would strengthen security by giving guards a little more time in which to deal with a possible emergency. The white-painted gate was still lying on the sidewalk, waiting to be put into place, and the cement in which the gateposts were set was still wet. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Lebanese guard said that he thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering...
April 18, 1983: The U.S. embassy in West Beirut is devastated by a car bomb; 63 people killed, including 17 Americans...
...Marine headquarters near Beirut International Airport and a French military barracks are attacked almost simultaneously by suicide truck bombers; 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers killed...
...president of the American University of Beirut, Malcolm Kerr, 52, is assassinated outside his office...