Word: beit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced what amounted to retaliatory actions. One was a levy on goods transported from South African ports to black states to the north. A cash deposit of 25% will now be required for imported goods bound for Zambia. In addition, a slowdown immediately went into effect at the Beit Bridge crossing between South Africa and Zimbabwe, as officials began a "statistical" study of the "nature and extent" of all goods moving across the border. Decrying what he called the "hysterical stampede" against South Africa, Botha challenged Mugabe and Kaunda to "put their money where their mouth is and introduce comprehensive...
...burglar alarm at Russborough House, the country estate of British Millionaire Sir Alfred Beit located 18 miles southwest of Dublin, went off at < 2 a.m. Police searched the premises, found nothing amiss, then left. The next morning, the administrator of the collection discovered that 18 paintings worth an estimated $45 million had been stolen. Sir Alfred put the blame on "thieves of a political nature...
...villages of the hills and the mountains beyond, Christians and Druze alike were feeling the effects of the fighting. Dwellings were destroyed, people uprooted, and hundreds reported killed, some of them in incidents that amounted to undocumented slaughter. The Christian village of Beit ed Din, site of the long-unused Presidential Summer Palace, is a shambles, its houses burned and its shops looted. It is deserted except for its Druze occupiers, who sit idly in the shade, cradling their weapons. Across a narrow ravine, within easy sniping distance, is the besieged Christian town of Deir al Qamar, scene...
Covered by a rug and preceded by three men holding Palestinian flags, the empty coffin was carried slowly along the main street of the village of Beit Likya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "In spirit and blood we sacrifice you," murmured one of the 250 onlookers, as others shouted, "Palestine is Arab!" The ceremony was a mock funeral for Jihad Ibrahim Badr, 16, one of the two Palestinians killed during the Easter morning shooting on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Both Badr and the other victim, Salah Alyamani, had already been buried in a tiny, fenced-off cemetery underneath...
...Tuesday, four other houses of West Bank families had been destroyed, leaving 62 more Palestinians homeless. At the same time, Israeli authorities gave back 225 acres of impounded property to the residents of El Bira, 13 miles from Beit Sahur, and allowed two deported Palestinian leaders to return to their West Bank towns. The contradictory measures were vivid evidence of Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's emerging carrot-and-stick policy in the occupied territories...