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...identity cards that all Lebanese must carry and that indicate their religion became instant death warrants for some. "They took my husband just because his papers said he was a Shi'ite," said Nabila Khalil, 23. "Some soldiers stopped him and said they wanted to ask him a few questions. I haven't seen or heard from him in 14 months." One episode occurred often enough to become a sort of national nightmare: militiamen would set up an impromptu checkpoint, stop a car and discover the driver belonged to an enemy sect. Sometimes the motorist would be shot...
...boundary splitting the city, and bulldozed its makeshift banks of dirt and rubble. The city's airport is scheduled to open this week for the first time in five months. "When I hear the first plane fly into Beirut, I will know the very worst is over," said Khalil Deir, a Lebanese barber...
...house of an Israeli labor attaché near Bonn draws the attention not only of West German authorities but also of intelligence agents from Tel Aviv, led by a man named Kurtz (a.k.a. Schulmann, Raphael, Spielberg). He knows who is responsible for the blast: a shadowy Palestinian called Khalil who has terrorized Western Europe with apparent impunity. Kurtz pays his hidden adversary a supreme compliment: "There's a brain at work." Kurtz has also located Khalil's younger brother and collaborator, currently living in Munich, and has a team of agents in place performing round-the-clock surveillance...
Made edgy by the conversation, Mrs. Khalil emphasizes that the aim of her society is to teach the children to love the beautiful things in the old country, and not to frighten them. "You don't want to start striking out right and left." She waves right and left with her arms; her English rolls in a heavy swell. "You want to make distinctions. A good Jew from a bad Jew. A good Arab from a bad. Also you want to show that life is not all hardship. There is joy here...
...there must be a tour of the society, a complete and thorough tour, says Mrs. Khalil, who, locking her hand on the visitor's arm, pushes him through corridors from section to section. He shakes hands with everybody?every secretary, every group leader. He admires the embroidery done in the sewing room, and stands in awe of the beautician training center, and congratulates everyone on the jams and pickles?all bottled there. Mrs. Khalil points out "this and this and this"?until the two of them make a full circle and return to where the little children are packed...