Word: lebanons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days after the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, we invaded Grenada, a tiny, tiny island whose exact problems and import to the world are still entirely mysterious. But it was 1983, the economy was recovering, and the fiasco in Lebanon was not that big a problem. A few thousand American troops, a few casualties, one terrible Clint Eastwood movie...
Singapore stockbrokers protested their government's politically inspired ban on private satellite dishes, arguing that access to instantaneous war news on CNN was vital for anticipating fluctuations in world financial markets. The terrorists who held Terry Anderson hostage in Lebanon used CNN as the vehicle to release a videotape of his appeal for help. CNN can be seen at the El Kabir Hotel in Tripoli, favored by Muammar Gaddafi's associates. It can also be seen at the Vatican, where Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, rises by 6 a.m. to watch and "know what...
Assad decided to try diplomacy, the only game in town. The U.S. responded to the shift and to Syria's cooperation against Iraq with modifications of its own. Washington signaled that instead of trying to force Syria out of Lebanon, where its "peacekeeping" forces had settled in, the U.S. might be able to live with Syria as the dominant power there...
Syria is the master of Lebanon, which it has always coveted. It is still on the U.S. list of terrorist-supporting nations, but its relations with the West are improving. Washington has even hinted that it will be more supportive of Syria's demand that Israel return the Golan Heights...
...successful negotiation has to give something to everyone. As it turned out, when the end of the hostage crisis came into sight, the U.S. leaned toward concessions that cost it little. It looked the other way when Syria tightened its grip on Lebanon. It continued to release blocked Iranian funds. Last week Washington handed over $278 million it owed Tehran for American-made ships and planes that Iran had paid for but never received after Khomeini took power. The U.S. also stopped objecting to other people -- U.N. and Israeli negotiators -- dealing with the kidnappers...