Word: beirutization
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...Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the P.L.O.'s Syrian-backed Al Saiqa faction. The assassination of the top guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired in the killing...
...jetliner, owned by Global International Airlines of Kansas City, had been hired for $89,000 by a Belgian company called Young Air Cargo. The plane left Beirut for Costa Rica supposedly carrying 60,000 Ibs. of medical supplies. The 707's pilot, Paul Marable, 58, thought it odd that anyone would be flying that kind of cargo from war-torn Lebanon across the Atlantic...
...Kansas City, the Iranian-born owner of Global International, Farhad Azima, expressed dismay that his airline might have been bamboozled into gunrunning by the charter firm in Belgium In Beirut, sources familiar with P.L.O. operations told TIME that other planeloads of weapons had been successfully flown to Central America from Libya and Algeria. All the-cargoes were disguised as medical supplies...
...bitter exchanges between the two countries came at a time when Syria is facing serious internal problems. Last month, according to reports from Beirut, more than 50 cadets at a military academy in Aleppo were killed by armed members of the right-wing Muslim Brotherhood. The students, most of whom belonged to Syria's small but politically dominant Alawite sect, were gunned down following an academy lecture. Announcing the slayings a week later on Damascus radio, Syria's Interior Minister, Brigadier Adnan Dabbagh, accused the brotherhood of also carrying out a series of other political assassinations since...
...bombardment, Begin said that Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was welcome to come to Jerusalem to negotiate peace with Israel. Begin also demanded that Syrian troops withdraw from Lebanon, and declared that such Arab states as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq should admit Palestinian refugees now living in Lebanon. The Beirut government angrily declined the invitation, and Premier Selim Hoss dismissed the Begin offer as "blackmail." Lebanon needed the Syrians to maintain order, said Hoss, and in any case the matter was none of Israel's business. Ever ready with an inflammatory phrase, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat vowed...