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...Marines was casual and at times almost furtive. The difference was not merely of style; throughout their stay, the Italians were able to maintain their role as peace keepers, while the American force came to be seen as an active supporter of the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian. With the departure of the British, the Italians and the bulk of the American contingent, the 1,250-man French unit was the only component of the Multi-National Force left hi Lebanon. French officials said again last week that they hoped to stay on until some different...
...rare sign of hope in a land that has been shattered by religious factionalism. In no small measure, the meeting was occasioned by the reversal of fortunes that the Christians have recently suffered. With President Amin Gemayel's government on the brink of collapse, the religious leaders expressed fear that Christians would once again repair to their isolated enclaves and make national reconciliation even more difficult. Said former Prime Minister Amin Hafez, a Muslim: "After nine years of continuous conflict between the two sides, there are young Christian men who have never seen a Muslim...
...more, the U.S. had decided to cut its losses in Lebanon. Neither by diplomacy, nor by the stationing of 1,600 Marines in a now almost surrounded encampment at Beirut airport, nor by naval gunfire had the U.S. been able to prop up the disintegrating government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. If that government survived at all, it would be at the sufferance of its Muslim opponents and Soviet-armed Syria. There was little left for Washington to do but announce a timetable for withdrawal of the Marines from what had become Mission Impossible. They were to be loaded onto...
...side were the Druze and the Shi'ite Muslim forces, backed and armed by the Syrians. On the other were the Lebanese Army and, unfortunately, the Malines, whose role was now being described by the Reagan Administration as upholding the government of President Amin Gemayel. Increasingly, the U.S. forces fought back as they came under attack, but they were woefully unprepared for the realities of Lebanon, as demonstrated by the Shi'ite terrorist bombing of last Oct. 23, which took the lives of 241 Marines...
Though he often talked about national reconciliation, there is little evidence that the young and inexperienced Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian, made any concerted effort to become President of all the Lebanese. Moreover, the agreement he had signed with Israel last May at Washington's urging drove a wedge between him and the Lebanese Muslims, who wanted no part of a pact with Israel. Nonetheless, Gemayel had one final chance. Last November he managed to assemble at Geneva the leaders of the principal Lebanese factions. The meeting went surprisingly well, but the Muslims and the Druze insisted that before...