Word: beirutization
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...Palestinian people by the Rabat Summit in October 1974-followed a month later by the triumphal appearance at the General Assembly of Yasser Arafat-the P.L.O. has scored impressive diplomatic successes. Its representatives are accepted as de facto "ambassadors" by some 100 countries and international organizations. At his Beirut headquarters Arafat receives a steady stream of visiting VIPs from the West...
...Moslem sectors of Beirut, portraits of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser are plastered on hundreds of buildings. No fewer than four separate factions in the Lebanese civil war proudly define themselves as "Nasserite." In Libya, there are almost as many posters of Nasser with his fiery eyes gazing down at the public as there are of the country's mercurial military strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Throughout much of the Arab world, in fact, the late Egyptian leader is passionately venerated as a modern prophet -but not, curiously, in his own country...
...dramatic escape from French counter-intelligence agents in Paris. On the alert for terrorists who use Paris as the center of their European operations, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) had been alerted by Lebanese authorities that a terrorist courier, Michel Moukarbel, was on his way from Beirut with money and instructions for an agent in Paris. Moukarbel was arrested in France and led three DST agents to Carlos' apartment on the Rue Toullier, near the Sorbonne. Confronted with the informer, Carlos pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired five shots. Moukarbel...
...charter and international airline rules forbid the airline to invest in travel agencies; that could give it preferential treatment in ticketing passengers. Menard also was found to have given special "expense accounts" to Lebanese officials in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain landing rights for Air Canada in Beirut...
...week's end the violence in Beirut had tapered off to occasional skirmishing and sniping. It was heavy rains, however, rather than a spirit of conciliation that had dampened the fighting ardor of gunmen, who roamed the streets carrying an umbrella in one hand and a rifle in the other. The lull coincided with end-of-the-month anticipation of paychecks, a time when many street fighters have a personal interest in maintaining at least enough order for banks to reopen...