Word: beirutization
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...arms have been getting through because of a Syrian naval blockade that is occasionally supported by Israeli ships. So weak has the P.L.O. now become that when the U.S. admitted that it had direct contacts with the P.L.O. (in order to secure the safety of Americans being evacuated from Beirut as well as the protection of the 15 embassy staff members remaining in the city), Jerusalem barely cared. Said an Israeli official: "The P.L.O. is losing strength, and we think it unlikely that the U.S. is going to give official recognition to an organization that is becoming less and less...
President Ford had been up most of the night supervising the sea evacuation of Americans from Beirut. His eyes were puffed and squinty. But there was genuine warmth last week when he strode onto a red-carpeted podium on the South Lawn of the White House and welcomed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to the U.S. As the last strains of Waltzing Matilda faded away, Ford stressed how "particularly close" Australia is to the hearts of Americans...
Palestinian Rage. The P.L.O. was losing on another front also. Says one Western diplomat in Beirut: "They missed a real opportunity to show the world that even temporarily they could run a de facto emergency government based on sanity, justice and efficiency." Even the fact that the Palestinians protect the U.S. embassy in Beirut-and claim to have arrested the killers of Ambassador Francis Meloy and his aide-has not offset that failure. Moreover, the cancellation of a U.S. convoy out of Beirut last week because the Palestinians said they could not guarantee its safety, may be further evidence...
James Kassouf is perpetually harassed these days. He is manager of the Beirut Restaurant in London's chic Knightsbridge, and this summer his phone is forever ringing with the news that some Kuwaiti sheik or Saudi princess has just left Harrods and was last seen heading for the restaurant for coffee and mouhallabiya. Kassouf and his staff are caught smack in the middle of an Arab invasion that makes the drought-dry London streets look almost like Cairo...
More than anything else, the strife in Lebanon is responsible for Britain's Arab influx. Most of the recent arrivals are vacationers from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, or temporary refugees from Beirut. In the past, rich sheiks from the desert states fled to the cool mountains of Lebanon for the summer; this year they went to England, only to meet an unprecedented heat wave. Many Beirutis use London as a haven for their families and a substitute financial capital while they continue to do business by jetting around the Middle East. "London was the next best...