Word: sidon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their needs. "The Israelis have created several Shiite Moslem militias, armed the Lebanese Forces. Christian militias which has units here, promoted former Lebanese Army Major Salid Haddad, whose forces they have armed and equipped for five years, and are now attempting to form a Sunni Moslem militia here in Sidon," (Washington Post, March...
...southern Lebanon since 1979 with Israeli backing. Last week the Israelis transported Haddad and many of his 1,000 or so militiamen, together with their old Sherman tanks and aging American-made armored personnel carriers, in flatbed trucks all the way to the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, some 20 miles north of the area Haddad normally controls. Boldly announcing that his "Free Lebanon" had been expanded to cover the boundaries of the 28-mile zone demanded by the Israelis, Haddad declared: "There is no need to proclaim our new state. This was one a long time ago." Haddad...
...three Israeli tanks approached a U.S. Marine position near the old Sidon road to the south of Beirut, Captain Charles B. Johnson, 30, of Neenah, Wis., did not hesitate. He ran toward the heavily armored, British-made Centurions, then took a position in the middle of the road. When the lead tank halted barely a foot in front of him, Johnson told an Israeli lieutenant colonel atop it, "You will not pass through this position...
...tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken concrete and seas of mud. Protests a resident: "It's a place for animals, not human beings...
Most of the credit for the cleanup operation belongs to Rafiq Bahaeddine al Hariri, a wealthy Lebanese businessman from Sidon. Owner of a construction firm called Oger, which has headquarters in Paris, Hariri has donated the services of hundreds of workers and a small army of equipment, including 40 bulldozers, 60 trucks, ten garbage trucks, five excavators and a pair of cranes, each able to hoist up to 40 tons. The estimated tab so far: $7.5 million, all of it paid by Hariri...