Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ronald Zeghibe '78, who spent the summer in Lebanon doing research for his thesis on leadership elites in the Lebanese civil war, faced a more serious problem: the difficulty, and even the danger, of working and living in a country torn by internal strife. Although most of the people he met and came to know were very friendly, he did find out that "life is very cheap" in the country as a whole, "and everybody gets used to it." He learned that lesson abruptly one day when, after a small automobile accident on a city street, the two drivers...
...whether the cease-fire can be extended long enough to bring peace to an embattled area that has been turned into a no man's land by the on-again, off-again fighting. Correspondent Dean Brelis and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish toured southern Lebanon last week. Their report...
When the Christians first made known their friendship for and cooperation with Israel, the Syrians closed the overland route from Christian-controlled sectors in northern Lebanon to the Christians in the south. The only way these forces are supplied today is directly from Israel...
There have been at least 70 cease-fires in the past 2% years in Lebanon, and nobody is betting on how long the latest one will last. The status of the forces has not changed. The only difference is that the Israelis are back in their own country. But they can cross the frontier again any time they think it necessary. No trooper on either the Christian or the Palestinian side is packing his gear and pulling...
...fact it may be years before southern Lebanon is again an area where fields can flourish and people can go about their daily lives without looking up and seeing artillery on the stony ridges around them. Already, though, a few people are going back to look over their houses-or what is left of them. They are not sure they will stay, but, if the weather permits, they will let their children swim in the Litani River, just as they used to in better days...