Word: bekaa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass through Lebanon on the way from their bases in Syria to strike at Israel. In a show of cooperation, the guerrillas quickly departed from the areas in southeastern Lebanon where they had seized a number of villages and outposts in an effort to gain control over the Bekaa Valley road, now dubbed the Arafat Trail, which runs from Syria toward Israel...
...learn Arabic he hired Khalil Ghattas, an agriculture student at the American University of Beirut, who spent the lesson time talking about farming. Stevenson was so impressed with the boy's knowledge that they became partners. Stevenson risked $600 to set up a small chicken business on the Bekaa Valley farm of Khalil's father. Ghattas turned the farm into such a show place that U.S. Point Four officials sent him to Purdue University to study animal husbandry. When he returned, he and Stevenson launched Greenleaf, began importing two breeds of U.S. chickens, one for egg-laying...
...poultry farm in the Middle East is Greenleaf Farm & Hatchery in Lebanon's flat, fertile valley of Bekaa, where Caesar's colonials once raised wheat. Hatched three years ago by husky Harvard ('48) Lawyer Robert Marshall Stevenson, 37. Greenleaf Farm delivers some 10,000 eggs and 1.500 chickens a day to Beirut alone, is a prime example of how well U.S. farming methods work in underdeveloped countries...