Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the book's other disclosures: Bashir Gemayel, the Christian leader assassinated after being elected President of Lebanon in 1982, had been on the CIA payroll for years; the agency monitored Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's phone conversations during the Achille Lauro crisis; and Argentine officials supplied intelligence data to the CIA during the Falklands war, information that was passed along to Britain, Argentina's enemy in the conflict. Woodward relates that a suspect being interrogated for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Lebanon died after being tortured by a CIA officer with an electroshock device. (The officer...
...racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm," and who won. Sam, at 29, was made vice chairman of the commerce and industry board...
...Olympic gold medal by an average of more than 40 points a game. "What's the fun in that?" he asks. Along with other coaching ambassadors, he began traveling the world and spreading the gospel. "Now there are good basketball players in Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon ((a Beirut pivotman carried Syracuse to the last N.C.A.A. final)), all over Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, almost everywhere. We're not going backward; they're just coming forward. I don't think that...
...paid a $2 million bribe to Sheik Fadlallah to halt acts of violence against American interests by his Hezbollah Party in Lebanon. The bribe, paid after an assassination attempt failed, halted the hostilities...
...reference to Washington suggests that Reagan's friends have begun to see him as a lame duck. That perception comes on top of long-standing nervousness about the U.S. commitment to its allies, a fear fueled by the American example set in recent decades in Cuba, Viet Nam and Lebanon. "The U.S. has no long-term policies anywhere," says a contra official. "If the problem can't be solved quickly and easily, Americans lose interest and move on to something else...