Word: beirutization
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...recent telephone interview he spoke almost wistfully of American power in days gone by. "There were the many crisis situations in the Eisenhower years and we never lost a single soldier," he said. He says we never should have gone to Beirut in the first place and that the invasion of Grenada was a misuse of our power. He would have left both crises up to the United Nations. Since its inception he has been a strong advocate of the U.N. and wishes it were more effective. He was one of two Republicans President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 sent...
...Government trucks that set up barricades at the mansion's gates. At the State Department, similar drastic security measures were in effect. The precautions were sparked by a bomb threat received by the FBI. It coincided with a review of security prompted by the October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole in a wall at the U.S. Capitol. Among the steps taken for presidential security: guard dogs were assigned to sniff all cars and trucks for explosives as they pass through the 8½-ft. steel gates. The sand-filled trucks...
Yasser Arafat, the Houdini of Middle East politics, appeared ready to perform yet another remarkable feat. Last year the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization managed to escape from Beirut with more than 6,000 of his commandos after the Israelis had captured a third of Lebanon and surrounded all of his positions. This year Arafat and his loyalists had held on for three weeks in the vicinity of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli as a vastly larger force of P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman...
...received a tumultuous reception from relatives and well-wishers. Once the Israeli prisoners were known to be safe, the Israeli government ordered the release in Lebanon of the remaining 3,500 Arab prisoners. Israel also returned the P.L.O.'s archives, which had been seized during the fighting in Beirut last year...
...Khomeini. In the spring of 1982, Hussein Musawi, then the leader of the military wing of Amal, the country's dominant Shi'ite organization, accused the group's leader, Nabih Berri, of not adhering to the Ayatullah's edicts. The gaunt and bearded Musawi left Beirut with several hundred followers, mostly hard-core fighters. He promptly established the new faction of Islamic Amal in Baalbek, some 40 miles away in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley...