Word: beirutization
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...keeping forces should remain just outside the area, although they will occasionally be allowed to inspect the Palestinian refugee camps near the border. The two countries will open liaison offices in each other's capitals, a prospect that does not gladden Lebanese officials. Although the Israeli office in Beirut would not have diplomatic status, Gemayel's aides fear that other Arab countries will see the step as a prelude to normalizing relations...
Shultz shuttled between Jerusalem and Beirut six times in seven days. He even had a mild brush with the terrorism that haunts the region. One night, as he slept at U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon's house in suburban Beirut, two Katyusha rockets whizzed overhead and exploded about 100 yards away. The rockets, like several artillery or mortar rounds that subsequently fell within 500 yards of a U.S. Navy ship offshore, were thought to have been fired from the mountains by Syrian-backed Druze forces...
...better or for worse, Shultz did not arrive with a plan to break the stalemated talks. Instead, he held a round of exploratory meetings in Jerusalem and Beirut, listening to both sides outline their differences. Then he shuttled between the two cities trying to reconcile the positions. The Secretary quickly learned that his presence alone would not resolve the disagreements. Conceded Shultz after the first round of meetings: "I still think it's doable, but it's going to be tough...
...hands, and violence by Arabs against Jews (not to needed against other Arabs) came long be fore the first modern Zionists, Rachman's comment on the most recent tragedy in Lebanon is also false. An anti-American, pro-Iranian terrorist organization, not Israel, blew up the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Finally, Israel does have a right to exist, Jews have rights to national independent and no one is to blame for the Arab rejection of the Jewish state save for the Arabs themselves...
...bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut last week killed at least 57 people, 17 of them Americans, and wounded some 100; though the death toll is likely to rise as the search goes on, the assault already ranks as the bloodiest terrorist attack ever against a U.S. diplomatic mission. Ten minutes after the blast, an anonymous caller warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was "part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world." The man identified himself as a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made...