Word: beirutization
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...sides began to add up the painful costs of the Israeli blitz and the violent opposition to it. The P.L.O. claimed that its losses were light but that at least 8,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians had been either killed or wounded. A Red Cross delegation from Beirut said that as many as 1,500 civilians had died in Sidon alone. Israel conceded that more than 100 of its troops had died and that some 600 had been wounded. Jerusalem also announced the death of Major General Yekutiel Adam. He was the highest-ranking Israeli officer ever killed in battle...
Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that went into effect at noon, but attacks against the Palestinian forces and the ferocious pounding of Beirut continued virtually unabated. Many densely populated sectors of the city were hard hit, including Palestinian refugee camps at its south end. Heavy fighting raged in and around Beirut airport. The bombardment went on through the night: illumination flares and the bright flashes of flak exploding in the air turned the night sky into a display of deadly fireworks. Israeli pilots dumped their empty fuel tanks over the city, sending them crashing into cars...
...made to a United Nations official in Beirut last week by Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Like Lebanese officials, Arafat was angered by the failure of UNIFIL, the 7,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, to mount more than token resistance to the Israeli invasion. Declared a Western diplomat: null credibility was a bit weak before. Now it has suffered a real blow...
...with previous surprises by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin-the destruction of Iraq's nuclear reactor in June 1981, the bombardment of Beirut one month later, the annexation of the Golan Heights last December-the Reagan Administration was presented with a distasteful decision and left to piece together a hasty solution to the regional turmoil. This time, the invading Israelis had simply swept aside one of Washington's most valiant efforts at Middle East peace keeping to date: the fragile, unwritten cease-fire between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, crafted just eleven months earlier...
...antiaircraft fire is your 5 a.m. wake-up call," said Tim McNulty, a Middle East correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. "It's been a week of sustained fear, and it doesn't look like it will get any better." Said Thomas Baldwin of the Associated Press: "In Beirut it's a risk just to walk outside your office...