Word: beirutization
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...Marines who disembarked in Beirut quickly took over the port area from the French units that had been there since the previous Saturday. First ashore was the flag-bearer, Lance Corporal James Dunaway, of Hattiesburg, Miss., followed by 200 men of Company E of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit. A Marine emblem pinned to his shirt, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had negotiated the agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. that led to the Palestinians' withdrawal, stepped forward to greet Marine Colonel James Mead, commander of the volunteer force...
...sure, there were some hitches. The Israelis complained that, in violation of the agreement, the first group of P.L.O. evacuees had been allowed to take their jeeps with them. The Lebanese protested that the Israelis were objecting to the placement of French peace-keeping forces in central Beirut. More serious was the fighting between Syrian and Israeli forces near the Beirut-Damascus highway in central Lebanon. This caused the P.L.O. to postpone a withdrawal over that route...
...solve the problem, Envoy Habib flew to Tel Aviv for a talk with Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, who has directed the Israeli military operation in Lebanon. At the meeting, Sharon, who refuses to describe the removal of the P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut as an "evacuation," asked Habib bluntly, "How is the expulsion going?" Replied Habib: "The evacuation is proceeding according to plan." Habib then asked Sharon to make sure that...
...departing Palestinians, it was a time of brave words and wrenching farewells. In hundreds of cases, men left for unknown destinations, leaving wives and families behind. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat called the long siege of Beirut and the evacuation "a victory for the resistance." The P.L.O. did manage to sustain the sense of an honorable retreat, with flags flying and the endless cannonades and thunderous volleys of rockets. The departing guerrillas and the friends who saw them off fired their automatic rifles and machine guns so furiously that a U.S. Marine said he felt as though he were...
...shipload of guerrillas reached the Syrian port of Tartus, they were greeted by shouts of "Victory!" and "Palestine!" Five sheep were slaughtered on the dock and skinned to provide a carpet for the visitors to walk upon as they came ashore. When a four-year-old Palestinian boy in Beirut asked his father, "Why is everybody shooting?" he was told, "To celebrate a great victory." To which the boy replied, "But if the soldiers won, why are they going?" The answer, only partly obscured by the fanfare of the occasion, was that they had no choice; the Israelis had forced...