Word: beirutization
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Tensions between the superpowers, at the same time, were mounting over the Middle East. With U.S. Marines still under fire from Druze rebels and Syrian guns in the hills above Beirut, American warships grew more active in supporting the Lebanese government's beleaguered forces (see WORLD). Both Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz accused the Soviets of being involved in Syria's largely successful attempts to frustrate international peace-keeping efforts in the faction-torn nation. Said a White House official: "We've seen a significantly increased likelihood of a U.S.-Soviet military confrontation...
...Lebanese coast, the U.S. destroyer John Rodgers and the nuclear-powered cruiser Virginia, part of an American flotilla that had grown to more than a dozen vessels with the arrival of the battleship New Jersey late last week, hurled some 600 rounds into the wooded hills above Beirut. For residents of the Lebanese capital, the shells zooming overhead produced a piercing whistle that sounded at first like some strange aircraft preparing for a landing. But moments later, the hills shuddered and burst into flame. Along the ridge that ascends abruptly behind Beirut, columns of smoke rose into the clear autumn...
...home office of International Press Service is clamoring for a "roser." It is, the Beirut bureau chief explains, "the radio equivalent of bang-bang, an on-scene report, the purpose of which is to give our listening audience a few thrills while they're driving home on the expressway." But the old pro has had it; his competitive edge is dull from too many wars, too many silly requests and perfunctory atta-boys on the wire. Besides, the Lebanese capital in the mid-'70s is the most dangerous place he has ever seen...
...Marine Corps in Viet Nam during the mid-'60s. He returned ten years later to cover the fall of Saigon for the Chicago Tribune. As a journalist, he also rode camels with Eritrean rebels in Ethiopia and was shot in both feet by Muslim militiamen in Beirut...
...novel's central rivalry climaxes in Beirut, though not before DelCorso tussles with guilt, a bruised class conscience and the bitter truth that he would rather chase wars than stay home with his wife and children. From the reader's point of view, this is a good thing. A domesticated DelCorso, brooding about integrity, mortgage payments and marriage, proves to be unbearable. Abroad, he is the subject of an oldfashioned, manly novel, crisply written with plenty of locker-room banter and bang-bang. -By R.Z. Sheppard