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Word: phalangist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1973-1973
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...trying to smuggle arms into Beirut from the Syrian border. His car contained 35 submachine guns, five bundles of dynamite and seven bazookas. There were other signs of a potential civil war. Fedayeen cars toured Moslem districts to pick up volunteer reinforcements. Armed militia units of the right-wing Phalangist Party were deployed around Beirut's Maronite Christian section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: To the Brink in Lebanon | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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