Word: beirutization
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...after its rapid advances, the Israeli drive stalled. Syria rushed some 35,000 reinforcements into Lebanon. P.L.O. guerrillas, operating in and around the coastal towns of Tyre, Sidon and Damur, mounted a stubborn defense. Armed Palestinians and left-wing militia were holed up in thousands of apartments in west Beirut, vowing to resist to the death. Warned P.L.O. Spokesman Bassam Abu Sherif: "They can raid and shell Beirut until they destroy this city, but the Israelis will never enter Beirut. We will fight street to street, house to house, and we will defeat Begin in Beirut." Indeed, the P.L.O...
...Friday morning, Israel stepped up its aerial bombardment of Beirut. In the heaviest assault of the entire invasion, Israeli jets sent pillars of smoke rising from targets that extended from south of the Beirut airport into the very heart of the capital's Palestinian-controlled west side Israeli gunboats offshore and artillery along the coast joined in the assault, which hit many civilian targets...
...Nabatiyah for several hours. A Skyhawk fighter, hit by a P.L.O. SA-7 missile, burst into an orange ball of flame. The pilot, Captain Aharon Achiaz, parachuted to earth, where he was attacked by a group of villagers. Then he was taken by P.L.O. guerrillas and rushed off to Beirut. There he appeared at a press conference, where he smilingly declared: "I have been treated very well. I am not afraid." He was the first Israeli pilot shot down in combat since...
...headquarters. Dressed in rumpled khaki pants and a windbreaker, he climbed briskly up the steps to the third floor and out onto a flat roof. There he answered his officers' questions about the rest of the operation and snapped out quick orders. "Are we going to enter Beirut?" asked a noncom. "No," replied Sharon flatly. "We must stay away from Beirut." He explained: "I shall avoid at all costs fighting a battle inside the city of Beirut. The elimination of the terrorists' headquarters inside the city should be carried out by the government of Lebanon...
Screaming over Beirut, Israeli jets dropped leaflets calling on the Palestinians and Syrians to leave the city and indicating which direction to take. In west Beirut, cars with public address systems began patrolling the streets, urging people not to panic and not to pick up the leaflets, which they claimed were contaminated. But, piled high with possessions, vehicles ranging from Volkswagen Beetles to luxurious Mercedes fled the city...