Word: beirutization
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Meanwhile, at P.L.O. headquarters in Beirut, patience was running short. The P.L.O., which took credit for it, served notice that the Hebron attack was just the beginning-a bellicose attitude that could do nothing but make the situation worse. From now on, said P.L.O. leaders, priority will be given to armed struggle against Israel within the occupied territories rather than diplomatic activity. The shift, the P.L.O. suggested, was because of apparent erosion of U.S. support for a solution to the Palestinian problem and P.L.O. disappointment that Western Europe has yet to follow through effectively on its initiative to recognize Palestinian...
...lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with in Islam roughly akin to the Puritans. No doubt the thought of sexual dalliance must occur to some princesses (there...
...Boston, the marzipan is the message. South African-born Director Antony Thomas set out to film a straight drama on the life and death of Princess Mashall, a lively young grandniece of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid. Mashall, whose arranged marriage soured, supposedly went to study at a Beirut university and there, by one account, acquired her lover, a Saudi commoner; the two were publicly executed in Jeddah (she was shot, he beheaded) for their all-too-public transgressions after they were caught trying to flee Saudi Arabia. But when Thomas found it difficult to pin down facts about...
...kibbutz raid was the work of the Arab Liberation Front, an Iraqi-based organization affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization. The timing could hardly have been worse for the Palestinian cause, which has lately been gaining support on the diplomatic front while downplaying its terrorist image. P.L.O. officials in Beirut indicated that they had not even been forewarned of the attack...
Situated on the edge of the battle-scarred Sabra Refugee Camp in Beirut is the Acre Hospital, one of the 35 hospitals and 100 clinics operated by the P.L.O. Acre is the headquarters of Dr. Fathi Arafat, 48, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent Organization and younger brother of Yasser Arafat. Born in the Old City of Jerusalem, Dr. Arafat took charge of the P.L.O.'s medical and social program in 1965. He is especially proud of Acre, a modern facility with intensive-care units as well as rehabilitation centers for commandos injured in action. Unlike other Lebanese hospitals...