Word: limassol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communique telephoned to The Associated Press office in west Beirut, Fatah said its military command "instructed the Limassol martyrs group to park a bomb-laden car in front of the Hilton Hotel in Jerusalem targeting Shultz, the messenger of imperialism...
...turmoil spread beyond Israel's borders. Israel's foreign-intelligence service, MOSSAD, was widely suspected of involvement in two bombing incidents in the Cypriot port of Limassol last week. In one, three senior officers of Fatah, the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, were killed by explosives hidden under the seat of their car and detonated by remote control. Although the P.L.O. denies it, the three were apparently in Limassol to arrange the purchase of the Sol Phryne, a rundown ferryboat that the P.L.O. intended to use for a voyage dramatizing the plight of 130 Palestinians deported by Israel...
...themselves "the beach people." On Sunday, the night before the 23,629-ton Achille Lauro reached Alexandria, they celebrated the 59th birthday of Marilyn Klinghoffer of Manhattan. It had been her idea that they should all take the eleven-day cruise from Genoa to Naples, Alexandria, Port Said, Ashdod, Limassol, Rhodes, Piraeus, Capri and back to Genoa...
Christos C. Anastassiades Limassol, Cyprus...
...Lebanon during the week of June 28 through July 4. Although his journey began on June 23, Rosenblatt did not arrive in Beirut until the afternoon of June 27, due to the necessity of going first to London, then to Cyprus, and from Cyprus by container ship from Limassol to Junieh, a small port in northern Lebanon. On the Friday before Rosenblatt's arrival, the Israelis dealt West Beirut the heaviest bombing and shelling of the war to that point. That same day Alexander Haig resigned and Philip Habib announced a "permanent cease-fire." On June 27, Israeli jets...