Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrible civil war that never really ended exploded anew last week...
...Said Abu Rish last week, left sections of Beirut looking like devastated outposts of World War II, "with flames on all sides, the clamor of sirens and the convulsions of shells exploding. Nobody can remember it being this bad even during the worst days of the civil war when [predominantly Muslim] West Beirut was under fire. Watching the destruction of East Beirut now is like watching in horror as a neighbor and his house are blown to bits. I managed to telephone one friend who had spent the night in a cellar under intense bombardment. The line was scratchy...
...Many Christian families who survived the civil war in West Beirut had gone to the eastern part of the city to try and start a new life. They said it would be safer there. Now black smoke hangs over it like a cloud smelling of death. Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless...
Austin Currie, 38, is the protesting Ulster parliamentarian whose initial sit-in at a County Tyrone public housing development sparked the civil rights movement. He now lives outside Dungannon in a house equipped with bulletproof glass, security locks, alarms and floodlights. The house, peppered with 68 bullet holes, has been attacked more than 20 times by extremists of both sides. Currie's wife Annita has been brutally beaten by intruders, who scratched UVF (for the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force) on her bosom. Says Currie: "What has happened here over the past ten years is only larger and more intense...
...years have passed since a peaceful civil rights movement blossomed among the Catholic minority, unexpectedly catalyzing violence and hatred in Northern Ireland. To date, the war between Ulster's Catholics and the Protestant majority-with British army regulars caught between-has left 1,837 dead, thousands disabled, and an uncountable number seared with fury against their neighbors. (Among the most recent fatalities: two Ulster constables, a reserve member of that force, and a young Belfast Catholic.) TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo reports on Ulster today, and how its people have learned to cope with terror, and even...