Word: beirutization
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...policymaking. It may take until mid-July before his nomination is confirmed by the Senate. Haig has said that he will stay on until then, but he will obviously have no clout. And events may not wait for the transition, as the Israeli bombs and shells falling on West Beirut all too starkly demonstrated last week...
...meeting with Reagan, and in a later private talk with Haig, Begin likewise would not budge on anything. At one point, the White House put out word that the Prime Minister had pledged to refrain from a final assault on Beirut. Haig was furious because he regarded the threat of an Israeli attack as essential to induce the remnants of the P.L.O. holed up in Beirut to negotiate with Israel. The Israeli leader had, in fact, made no pledge. As the fighting continued, Clark, Weinberger and others were arguing with Reagan that Haig's soft-on-Israel approach increasingly...
...land and sea. Relentlessly, day after day, Israeli forces rained destruction on Lebanon in their determined drive to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization and oust Syrian forces from the country. Waves of Israeli F-16s and F-4 Phantom jets screamed in over Palestinian-and Muslim-controlled West Beirut, dropping bombs. Israeli warships bombarded the city's coastline all the way from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers and pockmarked buildings...
...second-straight day, their planes dropped leaflets on Beirut that were calculated to undermine the morale of the 600 000 inhabitants of the besieged western sector...
...Israeli military spokesman told reporters in the southeastern Beirut suburb of Baaba that the PLO guerrillas must abandon their Beirut stronghold or face an all-out Israeli assault...