Word: beirutization
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...Castle, the old Crusader ruin on the Litani River, five miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian troops of the Arab Deterrent Force and right-wing Christian militiamen in Beirut and in the eastern city of Zahle, ending a tenuous two-week ceasefire...
...Beirut. Since the end of the civil war in 1976, the capital has been effectively divided into predominantly Christian East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut. Last week artillery and rocket fire exploded all along the Green Line, which divides the two sectors, then spread throughout the city and north 13 miles to the port of Jounieh. Beirut airport was closed after intensive shelling damaged runways and installations. The heaviest fighting occurred between Syrian troops and Christian militiamen, but there were also incidents of Lebanese army units, commanded by Christian officers, opening fire on Syrian soldiers in defiance of their orders...
Zahle. Heavy fighting first broke out in the city three weeks ago, 125 miles east of Beirut, when the Syrians discovered Christian militia building fortifications in the surrounding hills. The city is adjacent to the strategic Damascus-to-Beirut high way. Last week the city's 200,000 residents scrambled to their cellars again, as new, though milder, artillery clashes resumed...
...fighting quickly spread to Beirut, where artillery duels broke out across the three-mile Green Line that divides the city's Christian and Muslim sectors. In Southern Lebanon, meanwhile, the Israeli-supported Christian forces of Lebanese Major Sa'ad Haddad shelled Muslim and Palestinian sections of the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted...
...Christians in their civil war against the leftist Muslims and Palestinians. The troops have remained there under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. By 1978, however, the Christians had turned against the Syrians and after bitter fighting managed to force them to withdraw from Christian areas of Beirut...