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...vacation. Finally. After a week of temporary duty in Jerusalem, Stewart, the magazine's Middle East bureau chief, is planning two weeks in Greece and Scotland, says he, to "sleep late and have long naps." For the past 2½ years, Stewart has lived and worked in West Beirut, reporting on, among other things, the activities of the Palestine Liberation Organization. And he was one of only half a dozen or so foreign correspondents who had been in Beirut constantly since the initial Israeli advance of June 6. As some 6,000 P.L.O. fighters and their leaders were being...
...Gurion Airport to distant parts of the globe. With the cooperation of the Israeli authorities, several travel agencies in Sidon are also doing a brisk business operating one-week tours of Israel at $200 a head. A senior Lebanese official last week charged that the Israelis had looted Beirut International Airport, emptied its duty-free shops and even confiscated the big reservations computer of Lebanon's Middle East Airlines. Warns a Christian shopkeeper: "If the Israelis remain after the war, they will have no friends here...
...except for directing traffic and moving military equipment, the Israelis have tried to keep a relatively low profile in Lebanon. The groups of Israeli soldiers that wandered around East Beirut in mid-June like so many gawking tourists are now mostly out of sight. Israeli troops are permitted to buy only soft drinks, candy and cigarettes from street stores and vendors. Fraternization with the Lebanese is prohibited, and Israelis are barred from the restaurants and cafes of East Beirut and Jounieh, a few miles to the north. The army authorities have also warned Israeli soldiers to avoid Lebanon...
...rule, the Israelis have left municipal governments alone. Says Ibrahim Adnan, underprefect of the Nabatiyah region: "Frankly, the Israeli troops don't interfere at all in our affairs." But that, to some Lebanese, is precisely the problem. A Lebanese police officer who has not received a paycheck from Beirut since the invasion complains bitterly that the Israelis are not doing enough to restore order. Says an Israeli officer: "We had to find a way not to be a military government, but at the same time to get things done...
Reported by David Aikman/ Jerusalem and Roberto Sum/ Beirut...