Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloody violence broke out once more last week across the border between Israel and Lebanon. From bases below the Litani River, Palestinian fedayeen launched a series of attacks with Soviet-made Katyusha rockets on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya. Three Israelis, one a 35-year-old mother of two, were killed and five wounded...
...revenge the dead and discourage further attacks, Israel retaliated-and perhaps overreacted-with heavy artillery barrages and bombing raids on southern Lebanon. When the Israeli Phantoms and Kfirs had completed their runs and wheeled back to base, three villages-'Izziyah, Hinniyah and Burj al Shamali-had been all but wiped out. The Lebanese government claimed that at least 119 people, most of them women and children, were dead and more than 200 were wounded. The casualty toll was the worst ever in southern Lebanon, exceeding that of a similar Israeli raid on Dec. 2, 1975, in which 100 died...
...year after the end of a wanton struggle that raged for 19 months, killed 40,000 people and nearly destroyed a nation without noticeable gain for either Christian or Muslim combatants, Lebanon is painfully rebuilding. The primary symbol of the country's hope and determination to once again live at peace with itself is the reconstruction of Beirut, which serves not merely as Lebanon's capital but as home for half of its 3 million people and, until the war crippled it, was a gleaming Middle East social and commercial hub. The fighting devastated Beirut's business...
Even by modest estimates, some $5 billion will be required for full recovery in Lebanon, and such funds have been slow in coming. The first-step port reconstruction was financed by a $69 million U.S. grant. Lebanon's Arab neighbors, who bankrolled much of the fighting, have chosen to underwrite a far lesser share of the bill for peace. "The money in hand is a few swallows," an official told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "It doesn't make a spring...
Potentially, a more dangerous shortfall is any true spirit of reconciliation. The Muslim left, leaderless since the assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, is afraid of once again slipping into a minority position within Lebanon's complex political equation, despite its large numbers. The Christians, for their part, remain bitterly resentful of the 250,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon, whom 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...