Word: bekaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of how Israel deals with its Arab neighbors arises in an| other context: the continuing occcupation of Lebanon, which Israel invaded in June 1982. Some 124,000 troops remain in the southern third of the country, where they face the Syrian army in the Bekaa Valley and try to keep the coastal region free of the P.L.O. The occupation costs $1.2 million a day, but there is a human toll as well. Since the Israeli army withdrew from the Beirut area to Lebanon's Awali River last September, 55 soldiers have been killed and 436 wounded in terrorist attacks...
...attack against a Saudi added a new and troubling element to the violent Lebanese equation. The Syrians, who occupy the area of the Bekaa Valley that serves as a base for the pro-Iranian fanatics, have allowed the extremists fairly free rein. But Saudi Arabia bankrolls Syria to the tune of $1 billion a year, and Saudi diplomats have frequently acted as mediators in intra-Arab disputes. In tacit recognition of their status, Saudi diplomats had been exempt from the terror that has made victims of both Arabs and non-Arabs in Beirut. As the week passed, there...
...Gemayel government in the hope that it can bring peace to Lebanon, then our forces will be there forever. If he wants to provoke Syria into a war with the U.S., the President need only continue on his present course. After the latest clashes with the Syrians, the Bekaa Valley and the Gulf of Tonkin seem similar...
...there appears to be no graceful way out of its Lebanon dilemma. "The best achievable outcome," former Defense Secretary Harold Brown argued last week, would come if the Administration negotiated a partitioning of the country. Israel would control southern Lebanon; Syria would remain in the Bekaa Valley and northern Lebanon; the central government would control whatever it could around Beirut. If the parties will not agree to this, Brown contended, "we should leave anyway and let them find their own solutions...
...also a major source of its frailty. He allegedly sits atop a nationwide ladder of corruption, an arrangement by which government officials on the take share payoffs with their immediate superiors. The bucks stop with Rifaat. Such shady enterprises as extorting money from drug traffickers in the Bekaa Valley and running guns throughout the Arab world have reportedly given him a personal fortune of around $100 million...