Word: beirutization
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Reagan said that could entail using troops from other nations, but sources with the presidental party and in Washington said the American government probably would double the number of U S troops in Lehanon to 2,400 in responce to an appeal from the Beirut government
Salem's father had to stay in Beirut in his official capacity to see that hospitals remained open and water was available for the patients. The rest of the family fled to Ba'abda, Lebanon, a little town overlooking Beirut which houses the Presidential palace and the American embassy residence...
Even our of Beirut, the air raids were ever-present. "What was really cerise was that we could watch the air raids from our house in Ba'abda. The magnitude of the air raids--which could go on for hours and hours--was something which no one had ever seen before, never of this intensity...
...Israelis approached Beirut the family planned to have Lisa and Mark married in Ba'abda as soon as possible, however, a few days later the Israeli army rolled into Ba'abda itself and set up artillery and surveillance positions next to their house. "The whole night was very dangerous. We were all huddled together in the basement Mark's parents were very shattered, worried and scared." The family was forced to escape to nearby Byblios in the midst of the bombings...
Salem spent the rest of the summer in a beach cabin in small town of Jounieh up the coast of Lebanon. While he remained relatively safe, his father was still in Beirut, where the family could only occasionally, "miraculously" hear how he was. Near the end of the summer, however, Salem heard his house in Beirut had been bombed. "As my father was walking into the house an air raid began," he relates. "When plans come in from the sea you can't hear them because they are flying faster than sound, but you can see a flash when they...