Word: beirutization
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...BEIRUT--Violence between a peace-keeping Syrian force and Christians has caused serious damage in the capital city in fighting that veterans of the Lebanese conflict say is worse than any seen during the height of the civil war last year...
Palestinian liberation factions have been so busy lately assassinating one another that it was almost a relief?for them?to be at war with Israel again. Last week, in the aftermath of an Israeli air raid on Palestinian camps on the outskirts of Beirut, an elderly Palestinian woman expressed some consolation as she mourned the four dead and 14 wounded. "At least," she said, "these were Israeli bombs, and we are not afraid to die. When we are killed by Palestinians, it is shameful...
...more than 100 wounded, including the victims of a savage Mafia-style war raging between Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Iraqi-backed Palestinian agents in capitals across Europe and Asia. Early last week, a powerful explosion ripped through an eight-story apartment and office building in Beirut, killing more than 175 Palestinians and wounding 80 others. Among the dead: 37 members of the pro-Iraqi Palestine Liberation Front (P.L.F.) and ten members of Fatah...
...Beirut, a Palestinian Jeep carrying a .50-cal. machine gun sprayed the Iraqi embassy. No one was hurt, but in northern Lebanon, Palestinian factions battled in a running fight that by week's end had taken a reported 37 lives...
...Karachi, two armed men rode up to the Iraqi consulate general aboard a motorcycle. One of the two was bayoneted by a Pakistani policeman. The other, captured after a brief shootout, confessed that he had been sent from Beirut to murder Consul General Naji Zain Din and had picked up his weapon and instructions from Palestinians in Pakistan...