Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Urquhart, 69, found himself in the middle of virtually every major international crisis. Though he retired 2 1/2 years ago, Urquhart will be in the delegation that will travel to Oslo next week to receive the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the U.N. for its peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan and other volatile places. His efforts over many years not only in promoting the usefulness of the blue-helmeted U.N. soldiers but also in directly supervising their operations earned him the nickname "Mr. Peacekeeper." In 1986 Urquhart became a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation, where...
...peacekeepers started patrolling the border between Lebanon and Israel, but then in 1982 another war broke...
...this delicate juncture, calmer minds on both sides agree that the last thing anyone wants is a violent ethnic clash. Says editor Leito: "We simply cannot permit a split into rival groups as in Ulster or Lebanon." Nonetheless, the tension in Estonia is accompanied by exhilaration over the fact that vital issues are finally being aired. Many Estonians take the optimistic view that as long as there is no upheaval in the streets, the Kremlin will not call the republic to account. Says a Tallinn intellectual: "We are a legal-minded people and are prepared to examine everything in terms...
...that if he did not cough up back taxes due on his 1984 return within 30 days, the tax collectors would take him to court. But there was a hitch. For the past 21 months, Steen has been one of the Americans held hostage by Islamic terrorists in Lebanon. As such, Steen, 49, seems to qualify for the unofficial IRS policy not to pursue hostages or prisoners of war. That exemption expires once a hostage is freed. It may be enough to make captivity look just a little bit appealing...
Singh became the sixth foreign hostage to be set free in Lebanon this year, leaving 13 -- including nine Americans -- still in captivity. What his release means for the others, however, remains unclear. Singh and his three colleagues have always been regarded as a group apart. They were abducted by an organization calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which is not known to have engaged in any other kidnapings. Most of the remaining hostages are believed to be held by factions of the pro-Iranian Shi'ite extremist organization known as Hizballah (Party of God), which has some...