Word: jounieh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion that followed Penelope left the apartment, after having filled all the cats' dishes with food. The Palestinians believe that she drove to the Christian port of Jounieh and later was spirited out of Lebanon on an Israeli gunboat. Her car, which also had been rented from the Lenacar agency, was still missing at week's end, but police found Kolberg s rented Simca abandoned beside the seashore at Mameltein, five miles from Jounieh. It contained no clues...
Israel, too, was building up its Christian allies: the "Tigers" commanded by former President Camille Chamoun and the Phalangist fighters under Pierre Gemayel. By night, Israeli ships brought in arms, medical supplies and food to Jounieh, twelve miles north of Beirut. About 150 Israeli advisers - distinguishable from their Christian clients because they do not wear the pearl-handled revolvers and outsize crosses favored by the swaggering militiamen - were providing counsel and logistical support. Christian officers of the Lebanese armed forces turned over to the militiamen an arsenal of U.S. weapons that had been destined for the country's moribund...
...clogged with traffic during the day but it can still be perilous after dark. Yet in most other sections of the city day or night, restaurants and discos are open and busy; action has even returned to the baccarat tables and slot machines the Casino du Liban, near Jounieh, though its Lido-style floor show has yet to reopen. In warm weather, Beirut's St Georges swimming club, located next to the internationally renowned burned-out hotel of the same name, has reopened for swimming, sunning and girl watching Owner Michel Nader, who spent $500,000 to refurbish...
...they blame for starting the war. As a hedge against any new outbreak of hostilities, the Christians have taken complete control of east Beirut and almost all of northern Lebanon where they are busy installing the infrastructure for a separate state including improvements in the deep-water port at Jounieh and a $25 million airport at Hamat-all with the active assistance of Israel In the deep south, Christian forces with Israeli troops at their side have been challenging the Palestinian presence along the Lebanon-Israel border Says Pierre Gemayel, 72, charismatic leader of the Phalange, the strongest Christian political...
...Palestinian command in West Beirut sent troops, ammunition and food supplies south across the Litani River. One of the Christians' goals in the recent fighting was to break out a route to the sea and establish a base near the Israeli border to receive supplies by ship from Jounieh in the north. That failed...