Word: beirutization
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...BEIRUT, Lebanon--U.S. Marines were ordered into sand-bagged bunkers yesterday and told to "shoot to kill" anyone approaching their camp after three trucks that officials feared might be filled with explosives drove nearby...
They are part of a multinational force that arrived in Beirut 13 months ago to help the Lebanese government restore order in the war-torn country...
...anonymous bomb threat also was phoned to Beirut International Airport Tuesday morning. But a 10 a.m. deadline passed with no explosion and airport officials, used to frequent bomb threats, did not close the terminal...
...death of over 140 U.S. Marines last Sunday was a horrible tragedy, but so were the deaths of six Marines over the past months--not to mention the losses suffered by other nations. All could have been avoided. Who could not have predicted that if U.S. troops stayed in Beirut long enough, some would die? The responsibility for their deaths belongs as much to those who sent them to Lebanon as to their murderers in Beirut. Our boys did not die for their country; neither have their deaths made the world one iota safer for democracy. They died to satisfy...
...more." To what end? Shall we sacrifice yet more young lives on the altar of national machismo? Shall we let the misery of this brutal, pointless, little war invade our homes and our daily lives? Let us at least learn from the sacrifice of those already dead in Beirut and not compound the tragedy of these past weeks. Mr. President, take the Marines out of Lebanon. John N. Ross...