Word: beirutization
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...Washington, as in Lebanon, it was a week of false hopes. Day after day, the reports from Beirut suggested that the fighting in Lebanon's Chouf Mountains was just about over, thereby reducing the threat to the lives of the 1,200 U.S. Marines dug in around Beirut International Airport. But the ground combat and the artillery fire persisted as the fledgling Lebanese Army fought Syrian-backed Druze forces for control of the strategic hill town of Suq al Gharb. The Marines, after savoring a brief lull in artillery fire directed at the airport, were forced back into their...
...were complex enough by themselves. They were made more so by the fact that the nation is already in the early stages of a presidential election campaign. The President sent the Marines to Lebanon in the first place to assist in the withdrawal of the Palestinian guerrillas from West Beirut and to help maintain the peace while the new Lebanese government gradually took charge. Much has happened since then, including the failure of the Syrians and the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon, and the outbreak of fighting among the various Lebanese factions. But the original purpose of the Marines...
Failing that, the Syrians will pdo their best to reduce the small portion of Lebanon that Gemayel actually controls. At the moment, his government's franchise extends scarcely beyond the city limits of Beirut, and even in some sections of the capital its control is shaky...
...that the Druze forces were being heavily reinforced by troops from Syria and a rebel faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Many Lebanese, especially the Christians, have long been fearful that somehow the Palestinian guerrillas, in one guise or another, would find a way to slip back into West Beirut, and suddenly they appeared to be attempting to do exactly that...
...Syrians have supplied them with at least one artillery battalion equipped with twelve to 16 artillery pieces and eight or ten Soviet-made T-54 and T-55 tanks. Though the worst of the fighting last week was in the hills, clashes also persisted in areas south of Beirut, especially between Damur and Jiyah, where Druze and Christian militiamen struggled for control of positions close to the main Beirut-Sidon highway...