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Moawad is opposed by General Michel Aoun, commander of the fanatically loyal Christian army in East Beirut. Aoun is enraged that, as part of the peace plan, Moawad is willing to diminish Christian political power and let 40,000 Syrian troops continue to occupy large parts of Lebanon...
General Michel Aoun, the Lebanese Christian leader, rejected the agreement promptly because it provides no timetable for the withdrawal of occupying Syrian forces. Also opposed were militia commanders of Lebanon's large Shi'ite Muslim community, who want to abolish rather than readjust sectarian quotas. Yet the latest eight-month round of fighting has wearied most of the beleaguered country, and there were some signs that both Aoun and Shi'ite leaders would eventually be persuaded to fall into line...
...plan's success is far from certain, of course. General Michel Aoun, commander of the Christian forces fighting Syria and its Lebanese Muslim allies, warned in East Beirut that "the war of liberation will continue" until the Syrians are driven out. Muslim warlords also dismissed the Taif meeting and called for Aoun's ouster...
...televised speech from his hillside bunker in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanese Christian leader General Michel Aoun described last Saturday as nothing less than "the beginning of the chance to achieve peace." He then proclaimed acceptance by his forces of a seven-point peace plan advanced two weeks ago by the Arab League. The plan has been endorsed by Syria, which has more than 30,000 troops in the strife-torn country, and its Lebanese allies. It marks the first time since the two sides began waging open warfare six months ago, at a cost of more than 800 lives...
...both Assad and Aoun seem bent on the same deadly gambit: Damascus hopes the violence will turn Christians against Aoun; the Maronite leader hopes it will bring intervention from the West against Syria. Meantime, it is the people of Lebanon who continue to suffer, particularly those -- Muslim and Christian alike -- who live in Beirut, where the shells have killed almost 800 and wounded over 2,000 since March. The fortunate have fled, paring the city's population from 1.5 million to just 150,000. Those who remain huddle by night in airless underground shelters, listening to the sounds of destruction...