Word: beirutization
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...second time in less than a month, the pleasure capital of the Middle East was racked last week by deadly gun battles. The fighting in Beirut this time was more widespread, more prolonged and bloodier. The combatants also were different. Three weeks ago, it was Jews against Arabs, as Israeli commandos slipped ashore from gunboats, assassinated three Palestinian leaders and killed at least 14 other people in a carefully coordinated attack on fedayeen installations. Last week it was Arab against Arab, as the Lebanese army fought Palestinian guerrillas on scattered fronts in and around Beirut for two days...
Repeating a familiar, futile ritual, the U.N. Security Council was called into session last week in response to the Israeli commando attacks on Beirut. Even Arab diplomats acknowledged that they did not expect the meeting to find a solution to the Middle East crisis. In fact, said Algerian Ambassador Abdellatif Rahal, "it is not my intention to propose one." Instead, he and other Middle Eastern emissaries planned to spend the session condemning both Israel and the U.S., which, in the view of Arab leaders, promotes Israel's military aggressiveness...
Meanwhile, the litany of savagery continues without respite: Munich, the Sinai Desert, Khartoum, Nicosia, Beirut. Who knows where terrorism, Arab or Israeli, will strike next? To the Israelis, attacks on fedayeen camps and stray assassinations of Palestinian envoys are legitimate acts of self-defense designed to convince Arab fanatics that their war of vengeance makes no sense. The Israelis' calculated campaign of attrition may or may not ultimately discourage the implacable zealots of Al-Fatah or Black September. On the other hand, there is ample proof that the most recent displays of belligerence have discouraged Arab moderates. Many feel...
...Israelis retaliate for a terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens by bombing and strafing Beirut airport; 13 planes are destroyed...
APRIL 10, 1973. Israeli commandos, in a raid on Beirut, kill three Palestinian guerrilla leaders...