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...women and children in the Palestinian refugee camps south of Beirut. In fact, the anguished speaker was an Israeli woman in Jerusalem who the night before had watched the television pictures of the aftermath of the killings by the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christian militiamen. In Lebanon, even as Amin Gemayel was inaugurated as the new President in the place of his slain brother Bashir, the counting of the corpses in the camps continued. In Israel, the slayings and the Israeli government's complicity in those dreadful events produced a reaction of shock and soul searching unparalleled in the nation...
...Israelis also knew that Hobeika wanted to embarrass Amin Gemayel, whom he hated, and that he was involved in a bitter power struggle within the Lebanese Forces. As the man charged with protecting Bashir Gemayel, Hobeika was blamed for the leader's death and thus was anxious to take out his frustrations on someone. The Palestinians, who had fought Gemayel in the past, would turn out to be the victims...
...This is not the time for tears. It is the time for work." So declared Amin Gemayel, 40, last week as he addressed the members of the Lebanese Parliament, who had just elected him by a vote of 77 to 0 to a six-year term as President of their fragmented country. Gemayel spoke while standing beneath a black-draped portrait of his brother Bashir Gemayel, 34, who was killed by a bomb blast on Sept. 14, nine days before he was to have assumed the presidency. In that somber setting the new President-elect said: "I pledge to shoulder...
...selection of Amin Gemayel-a Maronite Christian, as was his assassinated brother-was the result of a rare display of unity between the country's Christians and Muslims. A lawyer who worked diligently as a member of Parliament for the past ten years to maintain ties with the country's various Muslim and Christian factions, Amin Gemayel has little of the charisma that made his tough-minded brother a popular hero among Lebanon's Christians. Still, Amin is no less dedicated than Bashir was to the main goals of the Phalangist Party: preserving the country...
...main question facing President Amin Gemayel, and his country, is whether the ruling Christian Phalangists can create and maintain a working alliance with their old Muslim foes that will survive the honeymoon period of the new presidency. As he accepted a red-and-white sash imprinted with the Cedar of Lebanon as the emblem of his office, Gemayel last week indicated that he perceived the dangers. "A single concern grips us now," he said. "This is to stop the vicious cycle of bloody violence on Lebanon's soil.'' -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by William Stewart/Beirut