Word: beirutization
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...massacre that followed were the result of the almost routine serendipity that seems to be the hallmark of good journalists. As the bomb that was to kill Gemayel was edging toward detonation, TIME Correspondent David Halevy was at the reception desk of the Hotel Alexandre in East Beirut checking out. TIME Staff Photographer Rudi Frey was at the hotel bar having a beer. David Rubinger, another veteran TIME photographer, was upstairs packing. The three were in effect calling it a day, just like everybody else. "Trusting that a new and quieter era had begun in Lebanon," says Halevy...
...Palestinians will never forget this The Jews remember Holocaust I and this is Holocaust H." Bishara Bahbah, a graduate student in Government and a Palestinian who lives in East Jerusalem, said yesterday. Bahbah added that his sister who lives in West Beirut disappeared when the Israelis surrounded the Lebanese capital...
...parallel U.S. priority is to secure the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon. Last week President Reagan announced that he would send Morris Draper, a career diplomat who has been serving as Special Envoy Philip Habib's top deputy in Lebanon, back to Beirut to try to bring about the evacuation of all foreign troops. At the same time, Reagan presented Habib with a Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Habib will return to Lebanon to attend the inauguration of President-elect Gemayel later this month, but has no specific plans after that...
Despite their differences with him in the past, some top P.L.O. leaders show a qualified willingness to bring Hussein back into the peace process. "We have no problem with Hussein," says Shafiq Hout, the P.L.O.'s representative in Beirut. Other P.L.O. activists concede that it may be a good idea to have King Hussein involved in the talks, since this would probably give the Israelis more confidence in any future settlement...
...estimates of civilian casualties, reassured many American Jews that the Israeli forces were not being as cruel as the early TV pictures led much of the world to believe. Concerns about Israeli excesses, however, were renewed by scenes of bombing and shelling that accompanied the siege of West Beirut...