Word: beirutization
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Even though Prime Minister Begin defies the whole world by refusing to stop the massacres in Beirut, the Israeli people should have the courage to tell him that Palestinians and Lebanese, like Jews, deserve the right of not having to kneel except...
Since that first week in early June when the Israeli military machine smashed its way to the gates of Beirut, life in the city had been harrowing. "There were bad moments, worse than anything I can remember during Viet Nam," said Stewart, who was TIME'S acting Saigon bureau chief in 1972. "I felt like a hunted animal, as if the shells and bombs seemed to follow me across the city." On one occasion, a bomb hit his apartment; on another, explosions pulverized his neighborhood. Two weeks before the final ceasefire, an explosion ripped through the floor where...
...romanticize these people. That would cheapen it. On some things, we could never agree. But we had, in a way, a common experience, of wartime. I don't think I'll ever be the same again. And in an odd way, I am almost reluctant to leave Beirut, crippled and shattered as it is. This city and its people now wear the survivor's badge of honor. Part of me, I think, will always be here...
...Beirut Ablaze...
...image of the Palestine Liberation Organization hiding behind the children of Beirut [Aug. 16] reinforces Golda Meir's words, "When peace does come, we will, perhaps in time, be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be more difficult for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons...