Word: beirutization
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...want of a standard term, the doctor on the case called the delivery a "Caesarean section by explosion." It occurred last July in Beirut, during an Israeli air raid on the Fakhani Street P.L.O. offices, when Palestine's mother, nine months pregnant, rushed from her apartment house in an effort to escape the bombs. No one is certain what happened next, but when the bombing stopped, Mrs. Halaby was found dead in the rubble. Three meters away, still enveloped in the placenta, lay her new little girl...
Only a remarkable twist, like the birth of Palestine, distinguishes one explosion from another in Beirut. For the past seven years the city has known the unremitting violence of the Palestinians, Phalangists, Syrians and Israelis; the high period was a full-scale civil war in 1975-76, which blotted out up to 60,000 lives, roughly the same number that the U.S. lost during 14 years in Viet Nam. For the past few years destruction has been confined to Israeli reprisals against the P.L.O.; sporadic clashes of the Syrians, Phalangists and Palestinians; and the ordinary run of street bombings...
...thing is that either the Lebanese are the most durable people in the world, or they have achieved a nirvana of terror that allows them an unearthly jauntiness. The sight of a new bank in Beirut is as common as a bashed-in Mercedes. You cannot tell if a hole in the ground is the work of a bomb or a construction team. The distinguishing sound of Beirut is the car horn-not the Beethoven or Roadrunner horn, but the I-am-going-to-kill-you horn. The most popular Beirut outfits are fatigues and berets, signifying the forces...
...BEIRUT--The Iranian government has published a 12-volume series of secret U.S. documents seized by militant students during the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran, travelers from Iran said yesterday...
...Italian police arrested Pasqua Aurora Belli, 34, a former schoolteacher, and Flavio Amico, 26, a printer, as suspects in the Dozier kidnaping, but their exact role in the crime was not clear. Meanwhile, police were kept busy with a number of spurious tips, including a telephone message to the Beirut office of the Italian news agency ANSA. The caller, speaking in Arabic, claimed that Dozier had been executed and that his body could be found in a small but unnamed Italian village. Police found nothing, and the message was considered to be a hoax...