Word: lebanonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authorities, who have desperately paraded a line of dubious Mideastern suspects before the anxious public since July, are keeping these arrests off the front page, says TIME Buenos Aires reporter Carl Honore. The investigating judge has switched his sights from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to Iranian embassy officials to Lebanon over the summer, under pressure to produce results. "This has become almost a farcical soap opera, going in so many directions that everybody's confused," says Honore.BTW...
...first headlines from Haiti had boisterous, almost frenetic crowds joyfully welcoming American troops. Alas, we were also received with joy in Somalia. Why, even the Israelis were showered with flowers (by locals glad to be rid of the P.L.O.) when they invaded Lebanon in 1982. Three years later, they withdrew under a hail of bullets and bombs...
...government will not assert exemptions to protect the privacy interests of any terrorist abductors who are mentioned in documents." --United States Attorney Eric Holder in a letter to Jerry Anderson, the former Associated Press reporter who was held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon for nearly seven years. Anderson had filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act asking the government to release documents pertaining to his captivity. Initially, the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and CIA all told him that because of various privacy protections in federal law, he would have to get notarized permission from his former captors...
...Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was meeting with the Council of Ulama, his nation's highest body of religious authorities. But Mubarak's effort was futile. On the following day, the council condemned the Cairo conference as a "ferocious assault on Islamic society" and forbade Muslims from attending. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq then joined Saudi Arabia in announcing that they would send no delegates to Cairo...
...greeting the investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in his bunker-like quarters at the Palais de Justice. "We are both professionals. We'll get along together." Gesturing toward the assault rifles carried by his four police escorts, Carlos bantered, "Ah! The FA-MAS. We had those in Lebanon. They're good." Though it was a display of insouciance for a man about to be charged with complicity in a 1982 car bombing that killed a pregnant woman and wounded 63 others, there was no masking the tired image Carlos cut as he stood in white pants, his mauve pullover stretched...