Word: beirutization
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...diehard supporter of everything Israeli, but I have lived in Beirut for four years. The Palestinians have brought this war upon themselves. The crime is that they are bringing Lebanon down with them. After years of terrorism, they now assume an injured innocence and cry foul when they find themselves on the receiving end. They talk about their rights but refuse to give the Lebanese the right to control their own land...
...Israel pounds Beirut, Habib inches toward a possible settlement...
...optimism was guarded, the outcome far from certain. After one of the bloodiest weeks since the Israeli siege of Beirut began nearly two months ago, there were hopeful signs late last week that a diplomatic solution to the Lebanese crisis might yet be found. The quest for peace was being led by U.S. Special Middle East Envoy Philip Habib, who shuttled to Jerusalem and Beirut after a tour of Arab capitals and talks with Jordan's King Hussein in London. Said a top U.S. official: "His trip moved us ahead. We got some specific commitments, enough to make things...
...tortuous negotiations, at least one of Begin's demands may have been satisfied, or so Washington hoped. That was the Israeli Prime Minister's insistence on an "unequivocal commitment" from the P.L.O. to evacuate its 6,000 guerrillas, who are sealed off in West Beirut along with 500,000 residents of the city. Indeed, negotiations were already un der way between Habib, the Lebanese government and the P.L.O. to devise a formula for relocating the guerrillas and their families to Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan...
...announcement by the Arab League of a six-point proposal for a settlement gave new impetus to a P.L.O. departure. For the first time, the Arab world acknowledged its "collective responsibility," as one U.S. diplomat in Washington put it, to ensure the evacuation of the Palestinians from Beirut. The key passage in the document, which was signed by Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, stated: "The Palestine Liberation Organization declares its decision to transfer its armed forces from Beirut and define guarantees for this move, along with guarantees to be worked out between the P.L.O...