Word: militiaization
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...dock workers refused to load Israeli vessels, and airport workers announced a boycott of all flights between Israel and Italy, forcing passengers to clamber down from the planes and carry their own baggage to the terminal. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Francis Pym said that when Israel allowed the Christian militia to go into the camps, "you would expect horrifying results. So at best it was incompetent. But I suspect it was worse than that...
...plan, relying on a heavy air attack and minimal deployment of ground forces. Field General Donald Allard-- who perfected Plan Crimson in a previous encounter with the militia-- will lead the troops into battle. He will be supported by the forces of Captain Gregory Brown, noted for his expertise in trench warfare, and Corporal Joseph Azelby, part of a swarming Ranger Patrol commissioned to search and destroy...
...BECAME distressingly clear last week that some members of the Israeli military knew about the slaughter of innocent Palestinian refugees by the Christian militia. Jews the world over took to the streets to protest. In Tel Aviv alone, an estimated 400,000 people--about 10 percent of the country's population--turned out to demand accounts from their leaders. Never before in the Jewish state's 34-year history have so many Israelis voiced so much discontent with their government...
...then, with the Israelis supposedly in control, a ghastly massacre took place. A still undetermined number of Palestinian refugees, most of them unarmed civilians, including women and children, were found shot to death in two camps in Beirut at week's end. Survivors claimed that the Christian militia, long allied with Israel, had slaughtered hundreds, perhaps more (see WORLD...
What had happened? Practically everybody agreed that the gunmen were right-wing Lebanese Christian militiamen, and were either from the Lebanese Forces led by the vengeance-bent Gemayel clan or from the militia run by Major Sa'ad Haddad, which is based in southern Lebanon and is closely alh'ed with the Israelis. The Lebanese Forces would be the more logical culprits, since they live in the region and were in mourning for their fallen leader. On the other hand, there were reports that a group of Haddad's men were seen in the vicinity of the camps...