Word: bekaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beirut and the airport, thanks in large part to the presence of the Marines, the French and the Italians. Gemayel's father. Pierie, is the commander of the predominantly Christian Phlange militia and his forces control a strip of land that runs about forty miles from Beirut to the Bekaa Valley. There is little trust between father...
...this we have two other major participants stirring the pot the Syrians, who control the Bekaa Valley, and the PLO, which controls Tripoli to the north. To the south, Israel occupies southern Lebanon...
...movement of goods, products and persons" across the Israeli-Lebanese border, and the Israelis would withdraw their forces from the country. The Israelis, however, made their pullout contingent on a simultaneous withdrawal of the remaining P.L.O. forces as well as the Syrians, who control most of the Bekaa Valley and much of northern Lebanon. When the Syrians refused to leave, so did the Israelis. Only on Sept. 3, under pressure from politicians and citizens back home, did the Israelis decide to withdraw unilaterally to a more secure line well to the south of Beirut and the Chouf Mountains...
...Lebanese accord in which Israel would have pulled its 36,000 soldiers out of the embattled country. As a result, the Israelis were busy last week making final preparations to move their front line in western Lebanon to a more secure location 17 miles south of Beirut. In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles of U.S. diplomacy. Partly because Assad refused to see him again, Washington replaced U.S. Special Envoy Philip...
...Israeli military line will probably run eastward from the mouth of the Awali River, 17 miles south of Beirut, then fishhook north into the Bekaa Valley (see map). No withdrawal will take place on the eastern front, where Israeli troops face the Syrians. But by moving away from the Beirut suburbs and parts of the Chouf Mountains southeast of the city, the Israelis hope to avoid being trapped in any crossfire between the Lebanese Christian and Druze militias...