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...remarkable eyewitness account and exclusive photographs in this week's World story on the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and the massacre that followed were the result of the almost routine serendipity that seems to be the hallmark of good journalists. As the bomb that was to kill Gemayel was edging toward detonation, TIME Correspondent David Halevy was at the reception desk of the Hotel Alexandre in East Beirut checking out. TIME Staff Photographer Rudi Frey was at the hotel bar having a beer. David Rubinger, another veteran TIME photographer, was upstairs packing. The three were...
First, an assassin's bomb killed Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel only days before he was to have taken office. Israeli tanks thereupon rolled into West Beirut, presumably to keep the fratricidal factions in the long-suffering nation from one another's throats. And then, with the Israelis supposedly in control, a ghastly massacre took place. A still undetermined number of Palestinian refugees, most of them unarmed civilians, including women and children, were found shot to death in two camps in Beirut at week's end. Survivors claimed that the Christian militia, long allied with...
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...