Word: beirut
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...Safir, a leftist Beirut newspaper reported to be close to the Tehran regime, quoted an informed Iranian source as saying, "Agreement has been completed between the U.S. and Iran to resolve the hostage issue. They are expected to be freed on the 25th of this month." Within hours, however, it became evident that the report was false. Behzad Nabavi, head of the Iranian committee that is negotiating with the U.S., flatly denied the report. He also asserted that Washington's proposal in response to one of the Iranian demands, that of allowing U.S. courts to decide the fate...
...control. After graduating from high school in 1973, he got a full-time job at the Y, going so far as to sign up in 1975 as a missionary in Lebanon. The trip was his dream, but civil war broke out shortly after he arrived in Beirut, and he was forced to return home. Aware of his dedication as well as his disappointment, the organization sent him to help Vietnamese refugees who were awaiting resettlement at Fort Chaffee, Ark. "He was especially drawn to small children," says Gregg Lyman, one of his coworkers. Adds Y.M.C.A. Executive David Moore: "The problems...
Reported by William Drozdiak/ Baghdad and William Stewart/ Beirut...
...BEIRUT, Lebanon--Iraqi forces, after weeks of street fighting, captured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr, Iraq's military command said yesterday. Iran's military officials denied the claim, saying that "the enemy's attempts to advance into Khorramshahr were foiled...
Davidson based his story on reports that included battlefield dispatches by Correspondent Adam Zagorin and Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak. Zagorin, who is based in Beirut, flew to Amman and set out on a grueling all-night bus trip across the Jordanian desert to Baghdad. He helped cover the 1977 border skirmishes between Egypt and Libya for U.P.I., "But this was my first look at direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting...