Word: beirutization
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...diplomatic efforts, there were fears that Israel might take advantage of his absence to attack the contro versial missiles. Instead, just 24 hours after Habib left, Israeli warplanes launched bombing forays against Palestinian positions, followed up with a naval raid that shelled the coast near Damur, south of Beirut, and landed commandos who ambushed guerrilla vehicles. The air strikes, the first in a month, hit Palestinian strongholds and refugee camps in and around the towns of Damur and nearby Naameh. According to Lebanese estimates, some 25 people were killed and at least 100 were wounded...
Reports TIME Beirut Bureau Chief William Stewart, who watched the air attack from the Beirut airport: "The planes, two at a time, appeared suddenly in a cloudless sky. Brilliant flashes of light followed them; it was unclear whether they were caused by Palestinian missiles or were emitted from the planes themselves to attract and deflect missiles...
After the attacks, Begin renewed Israel's charge that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who signed a merger agreement with Syria last year, had sent men and equipment into Lebanon to aid the Palestinians. According to sources in Beirut, between 400 and 500 Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya...
...revolutionary proclivities and criticize him for siding with Iran in its war against Iraq. Even Libya's Soviet backers view Gaddafi with suspicion, notably for his way of soliciting their support while keeping them at arm's length. Sums up a Palestinian political observer in Beirut: "If you measure a man by his enemies, Gaddafi has great stature...
...week's end Habib arrived back in Beirut to the scream and thud of some of the heaviest shelling and artillery fire since the civil war. He needed no further reminder of the urgency of attaining a broader U.S. goal: to work out a settlement among the warring factions in Lebanon so that crises would not keep on exploding like a series of land mines. To that end, Habib has also been seeking ways to strengthen Lebanon's army, to get the Syrians to take more responsibility for disruptive left-wing activities in and around Beirut...