Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ABOUT GOLF? Amin Gemayel is a man in search of a purpose. After his six- year term as President of Lebanon ended in September, Gemayel left the country because of pressure from the Phalangist militia once controlled by his murdered brother Bashir. Gemayel is now staying in Paris, where he receives visitors in a friend's well-guarded luxury apartment. A wealthy man, Gemayel talks vaguely of moving to the U.S. and taking English-language courses at Harvard...
Appointed Ambassador to Washington at the height of his country's invasion of Lebanon, Arens made enemies at the State Department by misleading Washington about Israeli intentions in the conduct of the war. But he also won admiration for his skillful management of Washington's vaunted Jewish lobby, even though his most cherished project, the Israeli-built Lavi jet fighter, turned out to be a $1.8 billion failure. From 1983 to 1984 Arens served as Defense Minister, a post that did nothing to lessen his commitment to Israeli control over the occupied territories. In 1986 Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir...
...marks a personal triumph for Arafat, who has been down so often but never out. His organization has been splintered by factionalism and scourged by armies from Jordan to Israel but never destroyed. He has promised his people much but ! never delivered. In 1982 he was drummed out of Lebanon, and just a year ago he was all but ignored at an Arab summit that consigned the Palestinian problem to the dead file. Yet a combination of events and his uncanny talent for survival have pushed him back...
...been frustrated in every attempt to move the many parties in the Middle East toward peace -- and he seemed to blame Arab leaders far more than Israeli intransigence for his failures. His personal distrust of the Arabs stems from their regular rejection of his initiatives, such as the 1983 Lebanon accord, which was immediately scuttled by Syria. At the same time, his support for Israel, despite provocations like the Pollard spy affair, has been unflagging...
...legislative branch, the P.N.C., still contain some ruthless men. A resolution that renounced terrorism in general terms still sanctioned attacks in Israel and the occupied territories; even as it was being adopted, Palestinian commandos with plans to hold a small village hostage were caught infiltrating Israel from Lebanon. The Algiers resolutions were read in front of a map that showed Palestine before Israel was created. And Abul Abbas, the demon of the Achille Lauro, was embraced by Arafat and seated as a member of the P.L.O.'s executive committee; Abul Abbas smirked that Leon Klinghoffer, the 69-year-old American...