Word: beirutization
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...Department officials counter that trying to verify the authenticity of the 3 million passport applications made every year would be prohibitively expensive. The officials concede they put more emphasis on the security agents' other duties, but they defend that practice. "Do you provide protection to the ambassador in Beirut, who has been attacked twice, or do you do more passport investigations?" asks Marvin Garrett, acting deputy assistant secretary for security. "We have to have priorities here...
...however, has provoked only new outbursts of hostility. A Palestinian village council chief, Yussuf Khatib, who cooperated with the Israeli plan, was ambushed last week by a commando squad and shot at point-blank range. Khatib was seriously wounded and his 23-year-old son Khazem was killed. In Beirut, the Palestine Liberation Organization claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying the men were guilty of "treasonous collaboration with the enemy...
...diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. and have often denounced Communism as "godless." They may merely be trying to win a consensus in favor of the Fahd plan from pro-Soviet states at an Arab summit scheduled to convene in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. Says one European diplomat in Beirut: "The Saudis want Syrian and, if possible, Libyan support, and they want Washington to realize that America is not running the only game in town. So even though they still fear the Soviets, they find it useful to mention them." Whatever the Saudi game, the Reagan Administration sold the AWACS...
...whether the U.S. will gain anything much to compensate for, and eventually assuage, Israeli and American Jewish wrath. Deeply worried about the fragility of the truce in Lebanon, the Administration hopes to replace a Saudi-mediated cease-fire with a more permanent arrangement to restore the authority of the Beirut government over its own country; that would involve withdrawal of Syrian troops and stringent restrictions on P.L.O. activity in the country. Reagan's special envoy, Philip Habib, will return to Beirut in mid-November to see what can be done in enlisting Saudi and Israeli support for such an agreement...
...hasn't sent us one single rifle without the imprimatur of Israel on it." That statement, of course, is ludicrous. Yet it is important evidence that Saudis share the Arab view about the American failure to rein in its Israeli ally, even when Israel bombs civilians in Beirut and a nuclear reactor in Iraq...