Word: beirutization
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...brusque rejection of the Reagan peace plan overshadowed some good news for the U.S.: the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut had gone so smoothly that the 800 U.S. Marines who had been sent to Lebanon as peace-keepers were being withdrawn almost two weeks ahead of schedule...
...civilian casualties in Lebanon. Israelis were also worried about the cost of the war in terms of their nation's prestige abroad. Night after night, throughout much of the world, television screens had shown Israeli forces using their sophisticated American-made weaponry to produce devastation in densely populated West Beirut. Abba Eban, a former Foreign Minister and a leading member of the opposition Labor Party in the Knesset, was undoubtedly correct when he concluded, "Israel's policies, image, character, values and aspirations are less understood and admired today than in any other period of her history...
...gunboats opened fire on the oceanside neighborhood of Rouche and the Carlton Hotel area after a ground penetration of about 2.5 miles into west Beirut that the Tel Aviv command said was aimed at preventing a dangerous new linkup between the leftists and some 2000 PLO guerillas reported still in the city...
...first time the Israelis had gone into west Beirut in force since they invaded Lebanon 14 weeks ago to rout the PLO Several thousand guerillas are still in the country many of them in the eastern Bekaa Valley camped with some 25,000 Syrian troops whom the Israelis also want...
...Moslem half of Beirut was shaken by the naval bombardment as Gemayel's funeral was conducted in a solemn Maronite Christian rite at the packed church in his hometown of Biklaya, 12 miles east of Lebanon's capital...