Word: beirutization
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...Beirut-based Karsten Prager, whose beat normally includes much of the Arab world, moved to the Syrian side of the war to report from Damascus, while Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante took up temporary station in Beirut...
...most dramatic exploits of the week was the raid on the Beirut branch of the Bank of America by five terrorists who said they belonged to the Lebanese Revolutionary Socialist Movement. They held more than 30 prisoners hostage overnight while demanding that all Palestinian guerrillas be freed from Lebanese prisons and that the bank donate $10 million to the Arab war against Israel. Next morning police stormed the building and freed the hostages. Five people were killed: three guerrilla's, one hostage, one policeman...
Only two weeks before the Egyptians struck across the canal, Sadat was host in Cairo to two leaders of the Palestinian guerrilla movement from Beirut. "Prepare yourselves," he told them. "We are going into war." The visitors duly reported Sadat's warning at an executive meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The leaders chuckled at yet one more vain boast by Sadat, who has come to be known among Arab militants as "Old Goha," the classic fall guy in Egyptian jokes. Scarcely a week later the Egyptians struck, and Sadat was an instant hero throughout the Arab world...
...resources. Israelis are already the most heavily taxed people in the world, and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has estimated that the current fighting will cost them perhaps another $250 million a day. Surtaxes must therefore go up. An Arab observer expressed last week to TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager in Beirut what was undoubtedly on many minds, Israeli as well as Arab: "What if Israel wins the battle and bleeds herself dry in the process-won't she eventually lose...
...After listening to a broadcast in which Israel claimed to have knocked out 800 Syrian tanks while the Syrians claimed only 25 Israeli tanks, an Arab diplomat remarked: "You see how the Israelis exaggerate? Our side is cool and realistic, while they make all those ridiculous claims." Said a Beirut businessman: "This week, if I happened to be traveling through Europe, I wouldn't be ashamed of telling people I am an Arab...