Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the action. "People broke into tears out of sheer nervous exhaustion," reported Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart after one particularly harrowing day of bombardment. So widespread was the destruction in mostly Muslim West Beirut, where TIME'S offices are situated, that Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro was dispatched across the Green Line, which divides the city, so that he could begin operating from the predominantly Christian east side. "In effect we set up a satellite bureau," he says. "If a sudden and devastating attack on West Beirut began, we feared correspondents there might be pinned down...
...want to go home." Across the Green Line in West Beirut, a few miles away, a Palestinian guerrilla took another view. "We will fight here to the last man if we must," he said. "We have nowhere else to go." -By William Drozdiak. Reported by David Halevy/Baabda and Roberto Suro/Beirut
When the hostilities began, Beirut Bureau Chief Roberto Suro was on vacation in Athens, Greece. Quickly, he headed back to Lebanon, ordinarily a 90-min. flight but now, with Beirut's airport closed, a grueling, scrambling 2-1/2 day ordeal. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, returning to Beirut from an overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon...
Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York and Roberto Suro/Beirut
...newly elected constituent assembly suspended a key element of the country's land reform, thereby raising grave doubts about the future of the program that was initiated only two years ago with U.S. backing. The vote was a victory for the right-wing coalition led by Major Roberto d'Aubuisson. Declared former President José Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats opposed the measure: "It was strictly a political move to attack the poor people of El Salvador...