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...hours before dawn one morning last week, a lanky, bearded young man in a rumpled blue jogging outfit dashed into Beirut's luxurious Summerland Hotel, overlooking the Lebanese coast. "I'm Charles Glass. I need a place to hide!" he fairly shouted to a receptionist. A U.S. television journalist who knows the Middle East well, Glass had been seized by Muslim Shi'ite terrorists 62 days earlier in one of Beirut's southern suburbs. Having somehow escaped, he had fled to the right place: the hotel is a heavily guarded sanctuary of Lebanon's Druze community, which is closely aligned...
TIME Correspondent John Borrell was finishing his dinner around midnight in the luxurious Summerland hotel just south of Beirut when a large, bedraggled group arrived for a late supper. Borrell did a double take: here were 32 hostages who had been roused from their beds Friday night for what was intended to be a farewell meal. Borrell, the only reporter in the restaurant when the hostages arrived, sent this account...
...Beirut buried its latest dead, Lebanese authorities and Western diplomats suspected that the most recent attacks on the Christian quarters were the work not only of Druze militiamen but of their Syrian backers. In retaliation, perhaps, the Druze-owned Summerland Hotel was bombed last week, killing six and injuring 20. By striking at the hotel, the bombers attacked a symbol of Beirut's will to endure; Israeli shells nearly wrecked the complex during last year's war, but Owner Raja Saab rebuilt it in five months at a cost of $10 million. The hotel and its beach club...
Hope is conspicuously alive at Summerland, the $25 million seaside resort built during the civil war. Though many of its 151 rooms are empty, the hotel has kept on a staff of more than 300, in the expectation that better days must surely follow. Summerland's bar, restaurant and two outdoor pools are still crowded. Said Sheik Khaled Saab, Summerland's part owner and general manager: "We Beirutis have the will to live. We've become immune to many things. We know if the artillery is 'incoming' or 'outgoing.' We can even tell...
...anticlimax. Not all of the Old Politics was gone: as the states were called to declare their votes, delegation chairmen delivered their traditional commercials. Delaware was "the home of corporations, chickens, chemicals and charisma"; California was "the state that began the lettuce boycott"; North Carolina was "the summerland where the sun doth shine...