Word: beirutization
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...Lebanon. In Israel, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin survived three no-confidence motions in the Knesset, all of them aimed at expressing the opposition's displeasure over the way in which the government had dealt with the recommendations of the independent commission charged with investigating the Beirut massacre of last September. In Lebanon, the fragile government of President Amin Gemayel accomplished the symbolic feat of replacing Christian militiamen on duty in Christian East Beirut with government soldiers for the first time since the Lebanese civil war began eight years ago. In Algiers, meanwhile, the Palestine National Council...
...meantime, while the Israeli government was preoccupied with its internal political problems, the Lebanese government was sending some 4,500 army troops into East Beirut. Ever since September, when the Lebanese army occupied Muslim West Beirut, Christian militiamen had remained in control of the predominantly Christian section of the city. Last week, after negotiations with the government of President Gemayel, the militia agreed to make way for the army. The agreement also called for the government to take over the "Fifth Basin," an illegal port where the militiamen have long collected import duties. In fact, even after the army takes...
...Gemayel, who became President in his brother's place, was never as close to the militia as either Pierre or Bashir, and as President of Lebanon, Amin has been determined to assert the power of the central government over the whole of Lebanon. He cannot do much outside Beirut as long as the Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces occupy so much of his country, but last week he succeeded at least in unifying his capital city under a single command for the first time since...
...militia commanders yielded to Amin's authority after suffering a series of setbacks. On Feb. 6, Druze fighters in the hills southeast of Beirut drove the militiamen from the town of Aley, for which they have been battling since October...
...Israeli Cabinet's overwhelming acceptance of the report of the commission inquiring into the Beirut massacre will prove important to Israel's wellbeing, but the power of the report goes beyond Israel. Whether or not they meant to, the commissioners produced a philosophical document, an expression of moral thought. What the report says, quietly, within its recommendations and explanations, is that there is a truth in human actions both detectable and accountable without confessions or irrefutable evidence-a secret truth-and that in the eyes of both common justice and common sense, this truth has no place...