Word: beirutization
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...aides made no secret of the fact that his strategy would be to kill it by silence. U.S. officials saw little they could do to refocus attention within Israel on the plan. Grumbled a senior White House adviser: "A cynical person might think that the Israelis went into West Beirut to provoke us into some land of sanction and thus to discredit our peace plan inside Israel. But of course we don't believe that." The slaughter in the Beirut camps could, however, thwart Begin's stalling strategy and force him to pay more heed to the proposals...
...week's bloody events in Beirut once again forced the U.S. to try to choose between short-term problems with Israel and long-term problems with the Arab states. The Israelis violated an understanding with Washington by moving into West Beirut. The massacre compounded the problem: it raised questions about the determination and the ability of the U.S. to see to it that Israel lives up to its commitments to guarantee the security of refugees in Lebanon and others in future arrangements for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The renewed bloodshed in Lebanon, as President Reagan noted...
...Israeli Defense Forces have taken postions in West Beirut to prevent the danger of violence, bloodshed and anarchy...
That was the Israeli government's explanation for its decision to send its armed forces into Muslim-dominated West Beirut last week following the assassination of Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel. The Israeli action alarmed the U.S., which saw it as a violation of a promise the Israelis made this summer to U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib while he was negotiating the withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut. It frightened the Lebanese capital's Muslim population, infuriated the governments of other Arab states, and led to a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on the Israelis...
First reports were fragmentary but horrifying. A group of armed men had entered the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps south of Beirut and opened fire on everyone they could find. They murdered young men in groups of ten or 20, they killed mothers, babies and old people. They even shot horses. And when it was over, they attempted, in a manner reminiscent of World War II, to destroy the evidence by bulldozing the bodies into makeshift common graves. TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro visited the Sabra camp late Friday afternoon and counted 50 corpses in one place. A Red Cross worker...