Word: beirutization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...R.and R."−rest and recreation−is a term that has slipped into the vernacular from military usage. There is a certain aptness in using the term to describe the New York City writing stint that TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager is undertaking as part of a home leave. Though still hard at work, Prager is taking a well-deserved break from 14 relentless months of observing first-hand the Middle East's most savage internecine conflict. Says Prager: "Beirut was always the place where one took a plane to cover a story somewhere else. The change...
While Prager changes pace, the Beirut beat is being filled by Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who spent four years as an Associated Press correspondent in Beirut before joining TIME and knows the city intimately. With TIME'S Dean Brelis of Athens, Wynn had lately been a more and more frequent visitor to Lebanon, as the conflict demanded a greater share of the world's attention and, naturally, of TIME'S efforts. In this instance, the homecoming was far from joyful...
Even on relatively quiet days during the 14-month Lebanon civil war, nothing was quite as eerie−and as frightening−as the ride from one side of divided Beirut to the other, through a half mile of no man's land along the broad Corniche Mazraa that was no one's preserve but the snipers'. Dozens of people were killed and kidnaped during transit to a crossing point cynics called "Mandelbaum Gate"*: only intrepid souls risked it during periods of fighting when the final stretch had to be negotiated at nothing less than 70 m.p.h...
Flag-Draped Coffins. The killing of the ambassador, the fourth U.S. envoy to have died at the hands of assassins in the past eight years (see box), triggered an order by President Gerald Ford to evacuate any U.S. citizen from Lebanon who wished to leave. With Beirut airport closed, the mode would be a convoy to Damascus, about 90 miles away via back roads, presumably under the protection of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the first phase of the trip, the Syrian army, which has occupied much of Lebanon, over the second stage. An 18-vehicle trial run organized...
...Syrian front line-roughly twelve miles from Beirut's sea front when I visited it-there were no preparations for an assault. The Syrian area commander said that the operation had gone ahead precisely on schedule...