Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week the Palestinian situation had become desperate: in one of the stranger turns in the course of the struggle, Moslem Syria's forces were on the side of the Lebanese Christians. The Syrians had moved into Lebanon originally to stop the fighting before either side lost. But the Syrian troops trying to contain the Christian-Moslem fighting were provoked into combat by Palestinians fighting alongside the Lebanese Moslems. Damascus' answer has been to increase its commitment in Lebanon still more, to 15,000 men who control most of the rich Bekaa Valley. The Syrians have also...
Unwilling to live side by side with belligerent Palestinians, the Christians in recent weeks have shifted to an ominous new strategy. They have unilaterally decided to impose their own solution: regionalization or "cantonization" of Lebanon into Christian and Moslem areas...
...grim contrast to the calm in Lebanon's emerging Christian country-within-a-country, the fighting continued to rage elsewhere in a war that combines tragedy with its own brand of occasional bitter comedy. Some items from the notebooks of TIME Correspondents...
Throat cutting has become the ritual form of execution, and each side has settled on a favorite dumping ground for victims. In the Moslem zone of Beirut, for instance, one busy repository is a murky space beneath a highway overpass. Its counterpart on the Christian side is a bridge 150 ft. above the Dog River on the road from Beirut to the renowned Casino du Liban. Bodies are simply tossed from the rail of the bridge, which has become a family sightseeing attraction. Cars double-park while occupants ogle the bodies far below without being bothered by the stench...
...Shoot him, shoot him," demanded other members of a Moslem gang when one of their number showed up with a Christian prisoner. Obviously nettled, the captor turned to his prisoner. "I'm not going to shoot you," he said angrily. "I want to show these guys that they can't order me around." With that, the Christian was set free...