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Despite the constant but relatively low-key fighting that marked the 1960s, Salem says his feeling of "violence coming home, coming close" began to grow in the early 1970s when the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), evicted from Jordan in 1971, began building a base in Lebanon. The Lebanese government at that time was "delicately balanced" to satisfy relations between the five major religions in the country--the two Moslem minorities, (Shiites and Sunnites), Christian Marinates, Christian Greek Orthodox, and Druses. The entrance of Palestinian forces "tipped the balance of the Lebanese political system," but, Salem adds, that was only...
...Salem remembers those years as formative. "Having nothing else to do, I used to play basketball outside in the court alone. Often I would be playing and a shell would drop, so I would have to run home. It was a very risky and sobering experience--dealing with death every single...
When he left Harvard last spring. Salem expected to go to home to witness one of a family's greatest joys--the marriage of his sister Lisa to her finance Mark Instead he met with one of the most fearful summers of his life...
...early June the Israeli ambassador to London was shot. Salem says his family and the Lebanese braced for retaliation when they heard the news, but expected nothing more after they heard Israeli forces had fired into refugee camps in Beirut and in the South. That was Friday, Sunday morning, though, during a big family lunch, someone heard on the radio that Israeli forces had advanced across the bans border and were quickly pushing up the coast...
...news sent everybody into a panic, especially Mark's poor parents, who had never been out of Omaha," Salem says. "Seeing that the air raids on the camps were getting fiercer, we decided that it would be best if all those concerned with the wedding left Beirut...