Word: beirutization
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Almost in desperation, on the last day the delegates agreed to a further separation of the various militias and to a withdrawal of heavy weapons from the Beirut area. They also agreed to the formation of a security commission, to be headed by President Amin Gemayel, that will be charged with maintaining the ceasefire. Perhaps most important, they voted to establish a 32-member commission to prepare for the drafting of a new Lebanese constitution within six months. Considering the condition of the country, that was a tall order. "Maybe everyone will be back here in six months," mused...
...modest office in Damascus last week, the Syrian President received Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan for the first interview he has granted a U.S. publication since the suicidal bombing of the Marine headquarters in Beirut last October. He insisted that Syrian forces will not withdraw from Lebanon until asked to do so by a new Lebanese government of reconciliation (which, of course, would have to be dominated by Syria). He clearly still wants American involvement in the region, though mostly to restrain Israel. His recent success does...
...organized Jewish force within the Zionist movement that dictates its views through the main centers of the media and through financial institutions. It is not a question of sentiment,,but one of material effectiveness. I find it strange that American citizens might sympathize with a state that bombards Beirut indiscriminately, using American aircraft, and yet might not sympathize with millions of displaced persons living in camps. If I am to accept this theory of sympathy, then I will have to change my view of American citizens, which I do not want...
...missions [in the U.S.] are attacked, are we to hold the U.S. responsible? We have had terrorist acts committed in recent years in Syria. Are we to say that the Syrian government was behind them? Why are we to be held responsible for an act that took place in Beirut when we have no presence in Beirut? Some American officials have made such accusations, but I doubt that they believe what they say. I told one of them that if we failed to prevent such acts in areas under our control, why did the Lebanese Army then fail to prevent...
...luminaries as Actor James Stewart and Novelist William Styron. Throughout it all, the warm words flowed like champagne. Calling his country "a constant ally that can be counted on," Mitterrand described the U.S. and France as "brothers in arms, who from Yorktown all the way through the ages to Beirut have shed their blood together...