Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene of the region's other conflict, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart notes a jarring contrast: "In East Beirut, there is scarcely a soldier to be seen. West Beirut is an armed camp." Inside that camp, Correspondent Roberto Suro reports, "Beirut has changed my perceptions of many things. After all the car bombs, parked automobiles will always seem menacing. After all the air raids, the sound of a jet passing overhead will never be the same...
...William Drozdiak. Reported by William Stewart and Roberto Sun/Beirut
...scandal began to unfold in May, when a special audit at the Banco Ambrosiano uncovered $1.4 billion in questionable loans that had been made to paper corporations based in Panama. The companies, it appears, were controlled by Roberto Calvi, the bank's president...
Reported TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro: "Most of West Beirut's people have slipped into a sullen lethargy. There is nowhere to go and nothing to do. Rather than risk going out while the shelling continues, people are staying at home. They sit on their balconies playing cards, and they sit by the radio and listen to the various versions of the news offered by the Israelis, the Phalangists, the Palestinians and the Lebanese government. For most people, the big chore is getting water. Then they sit back and wonder when this will all end, and whether...
...reaching. Said a P.L.O. official bluntly: "Perhaps the Soviets feel they have not lost much in Lebanon, but I assure you they have lost something all over the world. Every liberation movement now knows that they do not keep their promises." -By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Roberto Suro/Beirut