Word: beirutization
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...amount of American aid to the Gemayel government or to any government that does not have the support of the Muslims will ever bring peace to Beirut. Religious unity is the key to political stability. The U.S. has never understood that fact...
Peace and quiet, Lebanese-style, descended on the shattered remnants of Beirut last week. On most days, only occasional bursts of machine-gun fire flew across the "green line" separating the Christian eastern part of the city from the predominantly Muslim west. Late in the week, heavier machine-gun and rocket duels erupted between Christian and Muslim militiamen, killing two people and wounding at least 27 others. But in the early stages of the uneasy Pax Syriana imposed two weeks ago by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the main participants in the Lebanese tragedy were trying to shift most of their...
...Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz continued to insist before Congress that the U.S. was willing to lend a hand in achieving a political solution in Lebanon. While Shultz spoke, the number of U.S. warships stationed off the shores of Beirut was dwindling from about 20 to twelve. In tacit recognition of their impotence, Shultz and various Congressmen traded barbs over the American policy failure in Lebanon, contributing heat but no light to that country's future...
...part, the U.S. was left literally bobbing at sea by the passage of events. Days after the last of the U.S. Marine contingent from Beirut International Airport had clambered aboard American vessels off shore, the frigate W.S. Sims lobbed a barrage of 20 naval shells onto Lebanese territory. The fire apparently was ordered to protect a small contingent of U.S. gunnery spotters working alongside Gemayel's Lebanese Army. Then the guns fell silent...
...Rousseau, who wrote, without irony, of an ideal republic in which men would be "forced to be free." In our day, the word democracy is so beloved of tyrants that some have named their countries after it, as in the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. East Germany). And from Beirut to San Salvador, every gang of political thugs makes sure to kneel at least five times a day in the direction of "peace." So why not abuse civil rights...