Word: bashir
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While Israel's government fulminated against Reagan's proposals last week, it continued to consolidate its victory in Lebanon. The Israelis wiped out five more Syrian missile batteries in central Lebanon and attempted to pressure President-elect Bashir Gemayel into quickly signing a peace treaty. When Gemayel, a Christian leader who is on good terms with the Israelis and has sometimes been dismissed by Lebanese Muslims as an Israeli puppet, attempted to delay the negotiations on such a treaty until he has had a chance to strengthen his position in Lebanon, Israel's tough Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, spoke...
During eight years of bitter sectarian strife in Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, 34, gained a reputation as an iron-willed warlord of his country's Christian militia forces as he fought both Muslim and rival Christian groups. But now Gemayel, who will take office as President on Sept. 23, is talking like the national leader of Christian and Muslim alike. Last week Lebanon's President-to-be, lounging in blue slacks and an open-necked shirt in his 400-year-old ancestral home in Bikfaya, talked with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn about Lebanon's problems. Highlights...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Israeli tanks and troops surged into west Beirut yesterday, and their gunboats opened up with missiles in a new offensive against Lebanese leftists and Palestinian guerillas following the assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel...
There were no illusions about the fragility of the prevailing calm or the problems that still remain to be solved in the war-torn land. Grudge fights between Christians and Muslims caused several deaths, illustrating the difficulties President-elect Bashir Gemayel, former leader of the Christian militia forces, faces when he tries to pull together a country of feuding sects. On Wednesday, Gemayel had a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Later, a French soldier attached to a United Nations unit was killed by sniper fire outside the city. A Syrian MIG-25 jet fighter was struck...
...President-elect's father Pierre Gemayel was the founder and original leader of the Phalangist Party, a hardline, fervently nationalistic faction of the country's large Maronite Christian community. The youngest of six children, Bashir Gemayel enthusiastically embraced his father's conservative ideology, which was inspired by the nationalist movements of Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini...