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Dearborn Speech Highlights USAID Work in Southern Lebanon
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Walid Maalouf, USAID director of public diplomacy for Middle Eastern and MBPI Affairs, delivered a speech at the Bint Jbail Club in Dearborn, Michigan on Sept. 8, describing U.S. Agency for International Development efforts in the villages of south Lebanon. Participants from the Lebanese American Shi'i community attended the event. Thirty percent of Dearborn's 100,000 residents are Arab Americans. Of these Arab Americans, 80 percent are of Lebanese Shi'i descent and come primarily from south ...
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Kawkaba and the South Lebanon imbroglio: A personal recollection, 1977-1978
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; Informed media commentary on the Israeli attack on Lebanon in the spring of 1996 explained to the reader or listener that the Israelis had been in occupation of a strip of South Lebanon since 1978. While Israel's control over the so-called security zone can be said to have been formalized then,
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No mercy for Israel's allies in South Lebanon on the run in South Lebanon Israel's allies Israeli's militia in south Lebanon defect in fear
The Independent - London
; WAITING FOR the Israelis to leave occupied southern Leb-anon is a fearful business. As the sun burns the long grass around the big artillery batteries, Israel's "South Lebanon Army" (SLA) militia are on the run. In droves, they are defecting to the Hizbollah or the Lebanese army - nine ran through
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BOOM IS STRETCHING SOUTH LEBANON'S LIMITS
Dayton Daily News
; Village expected to double in size in 4 years SOUTH LEBANON - Lines of people stretched down the street and up the driveway leading to Nature's View, a new $1.25 million house perched atop a ridge in Vista Pointe at River's Bend, the most affluent of a half-dozen upscale subdivisions under
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South Lebanon mourns loss of longtime civil servant Otis Anderson was on village council, planning commission and was a frequent volunteer.
Dayton Daily News
; SOUTH LEBANON -- Otis Anderson spent most of his life serving the community of South Lebanon. He served the village he loved until his death Oct. 16 at age 83. "Otis had a long battle with cancer. During his battle, Otis suffered the loss of several members of his family who had passed," said South
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Banning landmines.(political items include both Canada and the United States hoping to bring about an international ban on anti-personnel mines, even though the U.S. is hoping to introduce exceptions to the treaty)(Politics This Week)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; President Clinton announced that the United States would take part in a Canadian-led initiative, now supported by 106 countries, to ban anti-personnel landmines. But the administration will argue for certain exceptions which, if accepted, would weaken the treaty due to be signed in Ottawa in
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