Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra hearings, he peppered former CIA Chief William Colby with questions about the rumor -- taken seriously by almost no one else -- that the late CIA director William Casey was not really dead. In August, when former ABC Newsman Charles Glass escaped from terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon, Rather sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as a "young American who says he was a hostage." ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel called the characterization "beneath contempt...
...Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian guerrilla died in a foggy, predawn skirmish on the Lebanon border...
...Israel's northern border, Israeli paratroopers battled with a three-man guerrilla squad that cut through a fence and planned to attack a civilian settlement, army officials said. A guerrilla and two Israeli soldiers were killed, one guerrilla was captured and another one escaped back to Lebanon...
...mosque. Sheik Yasin and several dozen followers were charged with illegal possession of weapons and intent to destroy the state of Israel; though he was sentenced to 13 years in jail, he was freed ten months later in a mass exchange of Palestinian political prisoners for Israeli POWs in Lebanon...
...week went by in which an Israeli or Palestinian was not killed or injured in communal clashes. According to the West Bank Data Project, which studies economic and political trends in the territories, the number of demonstrations averaged about 500 a year between 1977 and 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon. Since then, the number of protests has ranged from 3,000 a year to 4,400. In terms of Arab unhappiness, says Meron Benvenisti, an outspoken Israeli liberal who runs the project, "I don't see a change from a year ago. We just forget...