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...appreciate and will never forget your gracious and decisive efforts to help bring an end to the suffering of my country. We see the U.S. role as the indispensable ingredient toward bringing peace not only to Lebanon but to the whole region." So said the new President of Lebanon, Amin Gemayel, 40, to Ronald Reagan on the south driveway of the White House last week. The American President has not heard that kind of talk from many Arab leaders lately. More important, officials hoped that the Gemayel visit to Washington would speed up the search for a solution...
...Christian Phalangist Party in the 1930s, and he raised his two sons to carry on the family role in politics. So when President-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated last September only nine days before he was to have been inaugurated, it came as no surprise that his brother Amin promptly declared his own candidacy. By a nearly unanimous vote in parliament, Amin was elected to a six-year term. At first, no one quite knew what to expect of Amin. Though he had been a member of parliament for twelve years, he was all but overshadowed by his brasher young...
personalities could hardly have been more different. Bashir, 34, was charismatic but tough, a military man whose favorite pastime was hanging out with members of the private militia he led. Amin, 40, was quiet and intellectual, a lawyer and businessman who kept out of the limelight to pursue his private life. Bashir felt comfortable in fatigues or at the wheel of a Jeep; Amin has always had an eye for fine tailoring and limousines. While Bashir evoked strong emotions of loyalty or hatred, Amin was regarded...
conciliator, the "human face of the Phalange," as some Lebanese put it. Above all, Bashir was closely identified with Israel, which had helped finance and train his militia. Amin had always maintained good contacts with Arab states and opposition groups inside Lebanon. Following the 1975-76 civil war, which divided Beirut into Christian and Muslim sectors, he visited West Beirut regularly to talk with his Muslim counterparts. During negotiations for the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization from West Beirut last summer, Amin met quietly with Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s military commander. Born in the predominantly Christian village...
Washington has no objection to such a zone, but policing it may cause problems. Israel will probably not accept the redeployment of U.N. forces there, and Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who visits Washington this week, is reluctant to endorse the joint Lebanese-Israeli force favored by Jerusalem. The only solution may be a multinational force with U.S. participation, a prospect that neither the Pentagon nor the American public is likely to relish. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by William Stewart and Roberto Suro/Amman