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...Institute of Tel Zaatar was founded to provide foster families and education for the 313 children who lost their parents in the Tel Zaatar massacre of 1976. A year before that, 27 Palestinian residents of the Tel Zaatar camp were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists as they returned by bus from a rally celebrating a terrorist attack on Qiryat Shemona. In 1976 the Phalangists used 75-mm and 155-mm howitzers for a seven-week siege of the camp in which 3,000 died. Tel Zaatar was demolished...
...orphanage is a large, serene house with a facade of balconies. There are 160 children in it now, not all of them victims of Tel Zaatar. Like children elsewhere, they have rebounded quickly from their tragedies. A small boy whose mother was killed while bringing him water from a well refused at first to take water from anyone, fearing that it augured death. But after a few weeks in the home he overcame his phobia. A boy of two, who was in his father's arms when the man was shot, made no sound during his first six months...
During the final days of the battle for Tel Zaatar, a besieged Palestinian refugee camp that fell to Christian rightists during the Lebanese civil war in 1976, the last radio message that crackled over the air waves from the fighters inside was a request for the poems of Mouin Beseisso. "The partisans and fighters name Beseisso the poet of the revolution," came the message. "Let us hear his voice and his poems once more." Palestinian audiences listen with rapt attention to his strong, highly political verse, whose cadences reflect the long tradition of oral history and the loneliness...
...airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume. The industrial district of Mekhalles, badly damaged during the 52-day siege of the adjoining Palestinian camp of Tel Zaatar, is again turning out everything from office equipment to hospital beds...
...year. The stately St. Georges Hotel, grande dame of the district, will probably have to be razed and rebuilt. The light industries, such as clothing, foodstuffs and plastics, that ringed Beirut have also been shattered. In Mekalles alone, 30 factories were destroyed in the battle over the Tel Zaatar refugee camp (TIME...