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...dictators, and that it disregards the consequences of its policies. Uganda, for example, is in the midst of a brutal civil war. By some estimates, more people have died and more atrocities have been committed in three years under President Milton Obote than in eight years under Idi Amin. Yet between 1981 and 1983, the IMF advanced $373 million to the government of Uganda, praising the "considerable progress" it had made toward rehabilitating a shattered economy...
...three months to lay down the foundations of a new Lebanon. We should not let this opportunity go." So said Lebanon's Prime Minister, Rashid Karami, last week, while gunfire and explosions in the streets of Beirut added emphasis to his message. In the three weeks since President Amin Gemayel appointed Karami's "last-chance government," as it has been dubbed, at least 50 civilians have been killed in the Lebanese capital and hundreds have been wounded. During that period the ten-member Cabinet, evenly divided between Christians and Muslims, has remained at loggerheads over the same problems...
After days of haggling with factional leaders and after several hours of talks with President Amin Gemayel, Karami unveiled his new plan last week. It surprised most Lebanese and enraged many. For although the proposed Cabinet prudently included representatives from all six of Lebanon's main religious groups, it had only ten seats, and it distributed them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze...
...naming Rashid Karami his country's new Prime Minister last week, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel truly opted for a man with experience: since 1955 Karami, 62, had held the job nine times. Yet, as accustomed as he is to being Lebanon's man for all crises, Karami's tenth try is likely to be the toughest of all. He must form a Cabinet that reflects both the hopes for peace and the desires for power of his country's warring religious factions. "Let us bury our hatreds and sectarian prejudices," Karami implored his countrymen after...
...motorists and pedestrians raced to get home or to basement shelters. More than 30 people were killed and scores of others injured, making March 28 the worst single day of violence in seven weeks. The heavy shelling led to urgent consultations among Lebanon's warlords, and President Amin Gemayel convened the first meeting of the security commission created at the Lausanne conference. A tenuous cease-fire seemed to end yet another spurt of chaos...