Word: beirutization
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According to diplomats in Beirut, Iraq owes at least $5 billion to the governments of France, Yugoslavia, South Korea and Rumania for arms purchases and construction projects, and hundreds of millions more to banks and private companies in Western Europe. Iraq has also refused to pay bills due to companies in such gulf states as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on the ground that the governments of those countries have not honored their pledges to help Iraq's war effort...
...verify our credentials, we were released, with profuse apologies from the officer in charge." Except for the driver's wounds, the chief regret for Pierce, who won the 1982 Overseas Press Club award for photoreporting from abroad, and Foley, Pulitzer prizewinner for 1982 for his photos of the Beirut massacre (one of which appeared on TIME's Sept. 27 cover in most editions): no pictures that...
...bright and seemingly placid Sunday morning. A two-vehicle Israeli patrol was traveling along a winding road in the barren foothills of the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut. As the troops rounded a sharp curve, they passed a white Mercedes parked by the side of the road. Suddenly four men in the car jumped out and sprayed the patrol with automatic-weapons fire. Two of the soldiers were killed instantly and three others wounded. The attackers escaped...
...base for attacks against Israel, Israeli forces in Lebanon have become bogged down in an increasingly violent war of nerves. Three days after the Chouf ambush, an Israeli convoy was fired upon from a passing car, this time on a main street on the outskirts of East Beirut. Said an Israeli officer in southern Lebanon: "A certain increase of terrorist activities was noticed right after the ratification of the Israeli-Lebanese agreement. Now they shoot at anything that looks Israeli...
...killed and to 2,700 those injured since the invasion on June 6, 1982. Many of the attacks are believed to have been launched by Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas who slipped into Israeli areas from bases in the Syrian-controlled part of Lebanon or from hiding places in West Beirut. But a variety of Lebanese groups are also sniping at the Israelis. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, an underground organization composed of leftists sympathetic to the P.L.O., claimed responsibility last week for the Chouf ambush. In the far south, near the Israeli border, pro-Iranian Shi'ite militiamen have...