Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene of the region's other conflict, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart notes a jarring contrast: "In East Beirut, there is scarcely a soldier to be seen. West Beirut is an armed camp." Inside that camp, Correspondent Roberto Suro reports, "Beirut has changed my perceptions of many things. After all the car bombs, parked automobiles will always seem menacing. After all the air raids, the sound of a jet passing overhead will never be the same...
Iran's plan to attack Iraq, with Soviet acquiescence, was in the formative stages when the Israelis launched their invasion of Lebanon. The Israelis gambled that with a quick strike at their northern neighbor's heartland, they could impose a solution of sorts on their 34-year-old conflict with the Palestinian Arabs. They bought Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's argument that such an assault could free northern Israel from occasional P.L.O. attacks, break the organization's leadership and perhaps even create pressure on the Palestinians to make Jordan their homeland. If Syria attacked Israel's invasion force, so much...
...moment fear that they would only inflict damage on their regimes by appearing to be in league with the U.S. The Reagan Administration last week offered to hold joint milltary exercises with Saudi Arabia and any other gulf states that might feel threatened by the Iran-Iraq conflict, but so far there have been no takers. The most critical problem afflicting U.S.-Arab relation at the moment stems from the link that many Arabs believe exists between the U.S. and Israel's operation in Lebanon...
...would be "a very limited, short-term, specific kind of mission." In general, most lawmakers were willing to support the plan if the troops would be limited to overseeing a quick evacuation from Beirut, but there was strong resistance to any mission that might involve American forces in armed conflict...
Whatever happens, Argentina will undoubtedly need help from abroad. President Reagan sent a congratulatory letter on July 1 to Argentina's freshly inaugurated President, Reynaldo Bignone, saying that he attached "great importance" to restoring friendly relations between the U.S. and Argentina in the wake of the Falklands conflict. Bignone's curt reply was that the chilly relations were the result of U.S. economic sanctions imposed on Argentina during the South Atlantic...