Word: lebanons
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Indomitable and often unpredictable, Begin put an unprecedented strain on relations with the U.S. Ronald Reagan was caught off guard by the 1981 bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and a year later by Israel's bloody invasion of Lebanon. Such actions served to underscore a fundamental duality in Begin's nature: the peacemaker was not a pacifist, and never abandoned his dream of a Greater Israel...
...undoing. By 1981 the Likud trailed in the polls. Just three weeks before elections, Begin ordered the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor. The raid, which helped the Likud eke out a narrow victory, signaled a newly aggressive Israeli military policy. On June 6, 1982, army tanks rolled into Lebanon. The country paid a high price: more than 600 of its soldiers died, and 3,000 were wounded. There were also psychological scars after Israel permitted Christian Phalangist militiamen to enter the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, where they murdered at least 800 men, women and children...
During 15 years of brutal civil war among religious and political clans, fought mainly by Christian and Muslim militiamen, Beirut became a synonym for savagery. Last week for the first time authorities put out an official estimate of the rivers of blood spilled through Lebanon and its 3.4 million population. The casualty toll, largely civilian: 144,240 people slain, 197,506 wounded and 17,415 missing. Most of the missing persons were abducted by rival militias, and are now presumed dead...
...REMEMBER the headlines that accompanied Terry A. Anderson out of Lebanon in December. The last American hostage in the Middle East had been freed. An era of kidnappings, death threats and black-and-white prison photos had come to a close...
...Eternal City itself, Cathy Booth's four years there featured a string of challenging assignments. She covered the papacy and the World Cup soccer matches, rushed to the Iraqi border to interview refugees when the gulf war broke out, and risked shellfire during a hydroplane foray into Lebanon. So at first, she admits, it "didn't exactly seem like a reward" when, 17 months ago, she was named Miami bureau chief...