Word: bashir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Liberal Party and assured his rivals that the Phalangists would not retaliate for the fighting. He even stayed for lunch and a swim. The very next morning, however, Chamoun's followers were attacked by 800 Phalangist troops under the leadership of Amin Gemayel's younger brother Bashir, head of his faction's "war council." The savage fighting ended two days later after Chamoun ordered his badly outnumbered followers to evacuate their offices and barracks. The estimated casualties on both sides: 100 dead and 300 wounded...
Despite such fears, an estimated 90% of the 115 billion petrodollars now on deposit throughout the world remain in Western or Japanese banks. Only about $12 billion has been transferred to Arab-controlled financial institutions. Concedes Bashir Zuheri, Syrian general manager of the London-based European Arab Bank: "The oil-exporting countries still have more confidence in American and European banks than they do in Arab ones...
Tensions in Beirut rose at week's end when a parked automobile exploded near the passing car of Bashir Gemayel, military commander of the Christian Phalangists. Gemayel was not in his car; but the blast, apparently the work of a rival Christian faction, killed his two-year-old daughter and seven others...