Word: beirutization
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...several intelligence agents referred to elsewhere in the report. TIME has learned that it also contains further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family on the day after Bashir Gemayel's assassination. Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge for the assassination of Bashir, but the details of the conversation are not known...
...after he was inaugurated last September, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel ordered Assad Germanos, chief prosecutor of the country's military tribunal, to conduct an investigation of the Beirut massacre and to report his findings directly to him. Gemayel told Germanos, "We want all the truth, not 50% or anything less than all the truth. Our nation's honor is at stake, so you must do everything, even the impossible...
Unlike Israel, Lebanon has only recently emerged from a civil war and is deeply riven by political strife. At the time of Gemayel's request, Germanos' office was still in ruins from the crossfire in Beirut. Germanos has also been hampered by the need to carry on his regular duties, which included trying 6,752 cases last fall...
...those days," says a middle-aged Palestinian man who lost his wife and five children in the killings. "But I cannot think too much." The man has a piece of shrapnel in his skull and another in his leg from the bombs that exploded during the siege of Beirut. He now tends a small clothing store with his sole surviving relative, his father. Says the son: "When I think of the killings, I am afraid that it could happen again. If I remember too much, I want to leave here. But where...
Reconstruction in the camps lags far behind the rest of Beirut. Residents of Shatila can get water only from a single pipe sticking out of the ground on the main road outside the camp. At an intersection where some residents put up a defense against attacking militiamen, a bomb crater is filled with old auto tires and a rusted tank trap. Raw sewage oozes up to create a black slick on the muddy rain water that covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care...