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...TIME Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro covers not one but two of the toughest news beats in the world: embattled Lebanon and the police state of Syria. For this week's cover stories on the continuing violence in Lebanon and on Syrian President Hafez As sad and his country's pivotal role in the tur bulent Middle East, Suro confronted the difficulties of reporting from both countries...
During Suro's time in Beirut, he has reported on the Israeli siege, the massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps, the grisly bombing of the U.S. embassy, right through to last week's U.S. retaliatory bombing raids. Since the arrival of the U.S. Marines more than a year ago, he has occasionally escaped from the disorder and dangers of life in the Lebanese capital by visiting their encampment south of the city. "Once inside the gates," Suro says, "you could feel protected by strapping young men who spoke in familiar accents. There were Sunday afternoon barbecues and videotape...
...this activity stopped abruptly with the terrorist bombing of Marine headquarters in October. Now, says Suro, "the compound is like the rest of Beirut; sudden and unpredictable violence is always a possibility. Little America has become ground zero...
...week was a nine-ring circus of death and despair. After Sunday's raid came an intensive artillery barrage by Syrian-backed Druze militiamen, resulting in the death of eight U.S. Marines near Beirut International Airport. In Beirut itself, a car bomb exploded in a crowded street, killing 14 people. Nobody was apprehended, and as usual, the list of suspects was endless. Next day a terrorist bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis and wounding 45 others. For this senseless slaughter, two warring branches of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the mainstream group led by Chairman...
...ever been. It also seemed to place the Syrians in a somewhat stronger psychological position in regard to the U.S. Syrian authorities turned over the body of the dead pilot, Lieut. Mark A. Lange, 26, of Fraser, Mich., to the Lebanese Army for relay to the U.S. command in Beirut. But the Syrian Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, said his government would not surrender the captured pilot, Lieut. Robert O. Goodman, 27, of Portsmouth, N.H., until "the war has ended and American troops have left Lebanon...