Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, he also mourned the slaying of Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, who was taken hostage on a U.N. mission in Lebanon in February 1988 and subsequently slain. He called Higgins "a man of unquestioned bravery and unswerving dedication to the U.N. ideal" and called on the General Assembly to condemn the murder...
...Poland and Hungary. At the conventional-arms talks in Vienna, the U.S., NATO's erstwhile champion, now sits alongside other alliance members at the negotiating table. In the Middle East, France seems to be bidding to take a lead role, seeking to negotiate a cease-fire in Lebanon while a French aircraft carrier cruises offshore...
...added that if the apathy that now characterizes international attitudes toward conflict in Lebanon extends to the Arab-Israeli struggle, terrorism may begin to fill the void...
...halt the slaughter through international pressure on Assad. The Syrian President does not wish to offend the West when his country sorely needs economic help. Nor can Assad calculate Israel's or Iraq's response to an assault by his troops that would amount to Syrian control of Lebanon...
...both Assad and Aoun seem bent on the same deadly gambit: Damascus hopes the violence will turn Christians against Aoun; the Maronite leader hopes it will bring intervention from the West against Syria. Meantime, it is the people of Lebanon who continue to suffer, particularly those -- Muslim and Christian alike -- who live in Beirut, where the shells have killed almost 800 and wounded over 2,000 since March. The fortunate have fled, paring the city's population from 1.5 million to just 150,000. Those who remain huddle by night in airless underground shelters, listening to the sounds of destruction...