Reply #193: A friend of mine went to school in Beirut during the 60's [View All]

[SoCalDem]

That was when it was referred to a "The Riviera of the Middle east"..and even then, she felt ostracized and once was actually shot in the leg by a man who openly shot her in the leg with an air pistol, as his friends looked on and laughed.. her crime? She was a 15 yr old American girl in a short skirt.. and this was BEFORE the clampdown and Hezbollah and all that followed.. She was petrified, and soon afetr, her parents sent her to the Sorbonne..(Her Dad was a getty Oil exec in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and those societies were getting too scary for her to wander around in..) They sent her to Beirut with a "nanny" and set them up in an apartment..They only lasted a few months there as "unattended" women..