Word: beirutization
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Among the newsmen who covered the reopening of the Suez Canal last week were TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, who observed the shoreside ceremonies, and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who, as pool reporter for the English-speaking press, was aboard the October Six with Sadat. Their accounts of the celebration...
...Party, Pierre Gemayel, 70, had been demanding that Palestinian guerrillas be barred from bearing arms. To Gemayel, the 320,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, including 5,000 under arms, represent a "state within a state" that exposed Lebanon to recurring Israeli attack. In mid-April a five-day battle in Beirut between Palestinians and the Phalangists' own 6,000-man militia left at least 150 dead and 300 injured...
...Franjieh is), while the Premier should be a Sunni Moslem (as Rifai is). Lebanese Moslems were furious at the appointment, nonetheless, because Rifai represents the army, whose officer corps is predominantly Christian. The Palestinians and even the neighboring Syrians were also angry. Damascus quickly dispatched its Foreign Minister to Beirut to express its displeasure...
...confidence." The combatants, exhausted after eleven days of fighting that had taken at least 120 more lives, began to disperse their private armies. But at week's end a Palestinian youth was shot down by a street gang, and suddenly the city was again a battleground. South of Beirut, a Christian village and a Moslem village exchanged rocket and mortar fire; a merchant in the Christian community was killed. It is thus clear that Karami's first mission-re-establishing order-may be his hardest...
...been working with the military-assistance mission in Iran. The Shah called the Tehran murders "disgusting " and blamed a group of pro-Communist terrorists, apparently the same clandestine organization that killed another American officer two years ago. In an interview with TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager at his spacious office in Niavaran Palace, the Shah discussed the incident and a wide range of other topics. His observations...