Word: beirutization
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...darkness of night, Israeli commandos dashed ashore in the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh, some nine miles north of Beirut. As soon as they established contact with the Lebanese garrison, both forces spread out and secured a landing area. A helicopter slowly whirred up from an Israeli cargo ship standing offshore, guarded by a small armada of missile ships. The helicopter, TIME has learned, brought to Jounieh a top Israeli official who spent the night in a series of secret conferences with various Lebanese leaders, then climbed back aboard his helicopter and flew out to sea again, just before dawn...
...with shotguns, Magnums, carbines and clubs, teams of men sweep the streets, enforcing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for everyone under 18. Citizens cower behind the barricaded doors of their own homes, listening to the shots and shouts that punctuate the night air. The city is not Beirut or Belfast but Detroit, whose agonies are every bit as real and whose conflicts seem equally impossible to eradicate...
Even in the best of times, the refugee camp at Tel Zaatar, meaning Hill of Thyme, was a terrible place to live. An island of sweltering poverty not far from the high-rises of Beirut's Christian merchants, it had no modern plumbing, and water had to be drawn from wells and carried by hand to the tin-roofed shacks where the refugees lived...
...this all-out struggle, the women fought alongside the men. Carrying field radios on their backs, they acted as artillery spotters, calling in the Palestinian long-range artillery and rockets poised in West Beirut. At least 20 were killed in action. The children, too, joined in. Toward the end, the brunt of the fighting was borne by the Palestinian Ashbals (Sons of the Lion), youthful fighters often no more than 13 years...
Palestinian youths fought on for several hours in hand-to-hand combat, but by now thousands of refugees were streaming out of the camp through a hail of sniper fire and heading toward West Beirut. There many waited at a sporting center for relocation in empty Beirut apartments and villages in southern Lebanon. Mostly they were the very old, the very young or women. "We ran out of water, out of food, out of everything," said one elderly man, Abdullah Youssif Joumah, as he wiped away tears with his white kaffiyeh. Said another: "The boys who were fighting...