Word: beirutization
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...enough in itself. Scores were killed and hundreds were wounded on both sides as fierce battles scarred various parts of the sunny Mediterranean state. The army acknowledged that 43 soldiers had died and 167 had been wounded. Hundreds of civilians also died or were injured in the crossfire. One Beirut hospital reported that 45 wounded civilians had been operated on during...
...violation of a 1969 agreement with the government, they have used the camps as weapon depots and training bases for the liberation movement against Israel. As a result, Israeli commandos have struck Lebanon several times, most recently last month when they assassinated three Palestinian leaders in the heart of Beirut...
Emergency. The guerrillas pounded Beirut International Airport and nearby army installations with Soviet-made rockets and Chinese-made mortars. The army replied with heavy cannon fire from U.S.-made tanks. Terrorists raced through Beirut streets in cars, firing machine guns and hurling bombs at military and pro-Christian political quarters. One bomb, aimed at the Lebanese Officers' Club, bounced off a wall and exploded in front of the fashionable Phoenicia Hotel. Some rockets plunged into the gardens surrounding the presidential palace...
...activity of Lebanon's Opposition Leader Kamal Jumblatt and other left-wing or Moslem politicians. Jumblatt called a secret meeting to organize political agitation in support of the guerrillas. Later, a member of Parliament from Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party was caught trying to smuggle arms into Beirut from the Syrian border. His car contained 35 submachine guns, five bundles of dynamite and seven bazookas. There were other signs of a potential civil war. Fedayeen cars toured Moslem districts to pick up volunteer reinforcements. Armed militia units of the right-wing Phalangist Party were deployed around Beirut...
...government lifted the curfew for two hours during the morning, and Beirut citizens made a quick run on foodstuffs. Lebanese television, which normally broadcasts only at night, stayed on all day. Instead of providing live coverage of the battles, though, it tried to divert viewers with cartoons and reruns of soccer matches and Hogan's Heroes. The radio carried army communiqués but dropped its usual programs of Arab music in favor of such soothing Western classics as Gounod's Ave Maria and Brahms' Lullaby...