Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market stake to six figures. ''But the stock market was a little slow for me. Man, I thought I could do better in commodities. In commodities you make a profit, then you buy more, you pyramid. I was shorting wheat like crazy when Eisenhower landed Marines in Lebanon. Everybody bought wheat, and it soared. I lost all my $100,000.'' Canizaro...
...less important area of negotiations, the U.S. was preparing a new diplomatic effort. This time the main goal was to turn the jittery ceasefire in Lebanon into a lasting truce. The hope is that United Nations and Lebanese forces can gradually take over the tenuous peacekeeping tasks performed over the past three years by Syria's 30,000-man occupying force...
...Administration is dispatching Philip C. Habib, former Under Secretary of State and now a special adviser to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, for talks in Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and the Vatican. Habib hopes to persuade Jordan's King Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad to pressure the Palestine Liberation Organization into withdrawing its guerrilla forces in Lebanon north of the Litani River. Lebanese army units would be beefed up and U.N. peace-keeping forces (UNIFIL) increased from 6,000 to 10,000. At the same tune, Habib hopes to convince the Israelis that they must control...
...measures could be worked out in the next few weeks, U.S. officials believe, the Syrians would then agree to bring some of their peace-keeping troops home. Explains a State Department Middle East expert: "We know that Assad, for domestic political reasons, wants to get his troops out of Lebanon. There has been a lot of grumbling in the ranks about the hopelessness of their role there. On the other hand, Assad wants to be certain of the truce's chances. He doesn't want to withdraw and find his own security jeopardized by a new civil...
...shuns the PLO because it uses terrorist tactics. But Israeli guerrillas--under Menachem Begin--also used terrorist tactics in the period before the creation of Israel in 1948. Moreover, the recent bombings of civilian Palestinian camps in Lebanon are as deplorable as violent raids by Palestinian terrorists...