Word: beirutization
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...small automobile repair shops, but behind the din there is a kind of lethargy. Women and children abound, but there are few males of working age. Many of the men were killed in the massacre. The male Palestinian fighters who survived left the country in the evacuation following the Beirut siege. Since then, the Lebanese army and security forces have conducted roundups of suspected P.L.O. members, criminals and others believed to be in Lebanon illegally. The roundups have contributed to the fear and insecurity that still linger in the camps...
...silence was deceptive because the report on the Beirut massacre and Ariel Sharon's subsequent resignation as Defense Minister may have a profound effect, for better or for worse, on U.S.-Israeli relations. At stake is not only Washington's attempt to break the deadlock over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, but also the far broader objective, set out in Reagan's peace initiative last September, of solving the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan...
...commission's report was published as relations between the U.S. and Israel sank to one of their lowest points in a quarter-century.* From the President's anger over the siege of Beirut last summer to Begin's curt rejection of Reagan's peace plan to the stalemate over the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, everything has seemed to conspire to heighten tensions and deepen distrust. Perhaps the simplest and most basic example: the more President Reagan expressed his disapproval of new settlements in the West Bank, the faster the Israelis built them. Says a senior Administration...
...peace plan last September. He totally ignored the President's request for a freeze on West Bank settlements, and only four days later conspicuously gave the O.K. for eight new settlements in the occupied territories. What especially infuriated U.S. officials was Israel's entry into West Beirut after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel. The move broke a pledge made to Washington, and created the conditions in which Sharon and his commanders could be held indirectly accountable for the Beirut massacre that began one day later...
Recent weeks have brought a series of minor brushes as Israeli units tried to pass U.S. Marine checkpoints outside Beirut and were turned back; in the ugliest incident so far, a Marine captain brandished a pistol and turned away a trio of Israeli tanks. U.S. officials are convinced that the tank ploy was a deliberate act of provocation and that Sharon was behind it. Said a U.S. official: "Someone was trying to make some points...