Word: lebanonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they talked for 50 minutes. In the same wing of the papal apartments, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli and Archbishop Achille Silvestrini met with Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Judge William Clark, Reagan's National Security Adviser. Most of their discussion focused on Israel's invasion of Lebanon, then in its second day; Haig told them Prime Minister Menachem Begin had assured him that the invasion would not go farther than 25 miles inside Lebanon...
...purpose of carrying messages between the Pope and the President," says former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Wilson. "It wasn't supposed to be known that Walters was there. It wasn't all specifically geared to Poland; sometimes there were also discussions about Central America or the hostages in Lebanon...
...Administration consulted with the Vatican on other matters as well. In Lebanon, the Reagan Administration adopted policies favoring the interests of the church and Maronite Christians. On several occasions, Casey used church channels to deal with the contras, though the Vatican itself took no official position on the war in Nicaragua. (Indeed, the Pope issued numerous appeals for peace in Central America and implicitly criticized the U.S. for prolonging the conflict.) Cardinal Laghi, who had served in Nicaragua in the early 1950s as secretary at the Apostolic Nunciature in Managua, played a key role by assuring contra leaders that...
...BEIRUT, Lebanon--Angry Shiite Muslims took to the streets of Beirut on Monday, vowing to avenge Israel's assassination of the leader of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah. But Israel warned that any retaliatory raids would carry "a very high price...
...Lebanon said it still planned to attend the Middle East peace talks scheduled to begin next Monday in Washington. The Palestinians also indicated they would attend, despite two other Israeli attacks Sunday that targeted refugee camps and PLO bases in south Lebanon...