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Lebanon’s pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigned on Monday amid massive anti-Syria protests in the streets of Beirut, spawned by last month’s assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—a benefactor of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and an opponent of Syrian involvement in Lebanon...
...participant in last week’s Beirut protests, 2002 KSG graduate Wissam S. Yafi, called the demonstrations “electrifying...
Continuing international support for an independent Lebanon has been crucial, said Adib Farha, a former advisor to Hariri’s government and a professor at Lebanese American University in Beirut...
...indicted. Backward, March SYRIA Officials announced the planned redeployment of some of the 14,000 Syrian troops stationed in Lebanon to positions closer to the Syrian border. International pressure on Damascus to withdraw its military forces from Lebanon has increased since the Feb. 14 car bomb in Beirut that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and which the Lebanese opposition has blamed on Syria; Damascus denies involvement. A Fresh Start SOMALIA Hundreds of cheering Somalis in the northern town of Jowhar greeted President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Gedi as they arrived on a six-town...
DIED. ULI DERICKSON, 60, flight attendant for T.W.A. whose courage and calm determination saved lives when Lebanese gunmen hijacked Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, and held the plane in Beirut for 17 days, killing one; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Taking charge, Derickson soothed a gunman by singing a German ballad he requested, intervened to stop the beatings of passengers and used her Shell credit card to pay $5,500 for the plane's refueling...