Word: beirutization
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...short-lived spirit of celebration, Lebanese gunmen fired volleys of shot into the air instead of each other last week. With cheers and a flash of "V" signs, they welcomed a convoy of more than 50 freshly whitewashed trucks as it rumbled into Beirut's airport. Carrying a peace-keeping force of some 1,000 white-helmeted Arab League troops, the convoy was a signal for the withdrawal of an equal number of Syrian soldiers, who had been shelling leftist-Palestinian strongholds in Beirut since the Syrians took over the airport three weeks ago. Half of the Arab League...
June 16, 1976: Ambassador to Lebanon Francis E. Meloy Jr. and Economic Counselor Robert O. Waring, kidnaped and killed in Beirut by as yet unidentified assassins...
...most of the 14 months since Lebanon has been at war with itself, Beirut managed to deal quite resiliently with its misfortunes. Even as the war grew ever more ferocious, the structures of state collapsed one after the other, and artillery pounded away, some services continued to work almost normally. Until the very end, gutsy P.T.T. (Post, Telegraph and Telephone) officials kept telex and telephones alive, while Middle East Airlines, the country's flag carrier, flew in and out of a sandbagged airport that frequently took mortar fire, until it finally closed. Food prices soared, but cart vendors always...
Each time, the level of violence rose, frighteningly, demoralizingly. In the long fighting, barely 2 sq. mi. of Beirut real estate changed hands. And the weaponry grew ever more lethal: finally even surface-to-surface missiles were used. Residential sections once considered safe were shelled by both sides. Guns of every description, every caliber were everywhere. In a country with no police force, no army, no government, the streets belonged to the gunmen and their visions of macho reinforced by Kalashnikov automatic rifles...
...deaths in Beirut were the latest in a bloody chain in which four American ambassadors and six other U.S. officials have been killed in overseas terrorist incidents since 1968. American diplomats were also victims in at least a dozen other incidents, mostly kidnapings. Though a number of diplomats from other countries, notably Israel, West Germany and Turkey, have also been assassinated, U.S. representatives have been hardest hit. The roll call of American dead...