Word: beirutization
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Another senseless round of terror and counterterror shook the Middle East last week. It began last Tuesday morning when salvos of 3.5-in. rockets crashed into buildings that housed offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in downtown Beirut. The main P.L.O. headquarters for Lebanon, on the wide, busy boulevard called the Corniche Mazraa, was wrecked, as was the P.L.O. research center near the Rue Sadat. The office responsible for coordinating al-Fatah's covert terrorist activities inside Israel narrowly escaped heavy damage when the four rockets that had obviously been aimed at it landed instead on a nearby empty...
Whether or not the Israelis were responsible for the attack, the fedayeen quickly acted. The day after the Beirut raid, a young man in a cinema in Tel Aviv tossed homemade hand grenades into the audience. Three people-including the terrorist-were killed and nearly 60 injured. In Beirut, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat declared: "We have retaliated for the Beirut attack." However, some neutral observers questioned whether the attack was retaliatory. They doubt that the P.L.O. could so quickly organize the operation. Credit for the attack was claimed by George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...inappropriate time to mention it. His hard line was clearly aimed toward P.L.O. supporters in the Arab world, where the speech was beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed, and employees of the U.N. refugee agency took...
...Beirut the morning after his speech, the newspaper an Nahar displayed a cartoon of a smiling world tipping its hat to Arafat. In the General Assembly, meanwhile, Third World delegates showed their enthusiasm not only by applauding Arafat for a full minute at the end of his speech, but by pointedly walking out on the later rebuttal by Israeli Delegate Yosef Tekoah...
...complete devotion," says one Palestinian friend, "24 hours a day, 30 days a month, 365 days a year. There is no stop?ever." He eats on the run, neither smokes nor drinks. He has no home to speak of; one night he will sleep in the P.L.O. office in Beirut, the next at a friend's home. Even