Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict that threatened to destroy Lebanon-and to embroil the U.S.-was not exactly total war. In Beirut harbor, water skiing, yachting and bikini bathing went on unabated last week. The curfew's chief effect on the diplomatic set was to move up cocktail parties from 7 to 5, and to make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter...
...sporadic little war, which had too many undisciplined young volunteers wandering the streets, Lebanese had died in considerable numbers-an estimated 1,400 since the troubles began on May 9. The rebel opposition held out not only in large chunks of the countryside but in the Moslem quarters of Beirut and Tripoli, where their leaders tapped their telephone wires into neighbors' lines and regularly negotiated cease-fires with government forces by telephone. In Tripoli, most Moslem of Lebanese cities, after the week's roughest scrap (eight dead), the rebels as usual phoned a hospital in the government area...
More important, Hammarskjold seems to have concluded that the U.A.R.'s undoubted tampering with trouble was not so critical a factor in the Lebanese deadlock as the Lebanese government claimed. "The Observation Group believes," said his U.N. group's first report from Beirut, "that the progressive implementation of its mandate will contribute greatly to the creation within Lebanon of conditions which will make possible the solution by the Lebanese people themselves of the internal problems which face the country at the present time...
Tribal & Local. After two months of civil war, he still refuses to say that he will not seek reelection, points only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...
President Camille Chamoun, 58, one of the world's handsomest chiefs of state, rounds out his six-year term in September and still has not rejected the idea of another. Trim, silver-haired, he took his law degree at the French Jesuit St. Joseph's University in Beirut, married a wife who is half English, half Lebanese and a Presbyterian. Chamoun himself, as tradition dictates for a Lebanese president, is a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect. Elected as an ardent nationalist on a reform ticket, he stuck to Lebanon's customary neutral foreign policy until...