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Storm in Beirut

Language: English Series: Financial Times ; 21 May 1992, 4(2)Publication details: 1992Subject(s): Summary: Plans to reconstruct the war-ravaged heart of Beirut have generated a controversy as fierce as any in the civil war. If successful the $2.65bn plan will transform 135 hectares of desolute ruins into skyscrapers, condominiums, parking lots and shopping malls complete with a 40-storey twin-tower World Trade Centre and an opera house.

Plans to reconstruct the war-ravaged heart of Beirut have generated a controversy as fierce as any in the civil war. If successful the $2.65bn plan will transform 135 hectares of desolute ruins into skyscrapers, condominiums, parking lots and shopping malls complete with a 40-storey twin-tower World Trade Centre and an opera house.