Word: beirutization
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...deeply dismayed by the coverage of the congressional fact-finding trip to the Middle East [Aug. 9]. TIME failed to report the range of our activities and the numerous leaders we met. Ours was the first American delegation to see the destruction in West Beirut. We were also the first group to tour Lebanon under American and Lebanese auspices only. Among the findings of our mission: 1) the senseless bloodshed and destruction are overwhelming, 2) humanitarian aid is desperately needed and is not reaching those who have been victimized by the war, and 3) there is a unique phenomenon...
After ten weeks of bitter siege, the P.L.O. evacuation from West Beirut begins...
...have reached the end of our sorrows," Lebanese Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan declared with heartfelt fervor last week, then quickly added, "at least on paper." And so it seemed. In mid-afternoon last Saturday, a force of about 450 fighting men of the Palestine Liberation Organization left Beirut by sea bound for Cyprus, | thereby setting in motion the evacuation of some 7,000 P.L.O. guerrillas from the Lebanese capital. The event was both dramatic and historic, since it marked the end not only of the ten-week Israeli siege of West Beirut but of the PL.O.'s twelve...
...Beirut seemed to erupt in gunfire as the first elements of the P.L.O. contingent left the Fakhani district, site of the organization's headquarters, aboard Lebanese army trucks. For nearly three hours, hundreds of Palestinian soldiers throughout the city fired rifles, machine guns, rockets and antiaircraft guns into the air in a grand salute to their departing comrades. Watching the spectacle were 350 French peace-keeping troops who had arrived shortly after dawn that morning to assist in the evacuation...
...envoys. Their goal: forcing the Turks to acknowledge committing the act of genocide, to pay reparations to the descendants of the victims, and to grant autonomy to the former Armenian-dominated provinces in northeastern Turkey or give them up altogether so they might become a separate nation. The Marxist, Beirut-based ASALA and another group called the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide have killed 22 Turkish diplomats or members of their families and staffs, and have wounded 15 other envoys or their dependents. In addition, there have been 70 casualties, including four deaths, among people who, though not Turkish...