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...hold here. The Crimson's readers are members of the Harvard community, including those who attended Jackson's speech, those who organized it, and those who cared enough to write about it. By underestimating our interest, you are failing to cater to your public. Tamara Lyn '93 Camilla Bustani...
Rules for the Fedayeen. The ten-day shoot-out between the Lebanese army and Al-Fatah, which threatened to plunge Lebanon into civil war, was settled by a compromise. Major General Emile Bustani, Lebanon's chief of staff, who represented President Charles Helou at the Cairo talks, gave a pledge to Yusser Arafat, leader of the main guerrilla organization, Al-Fatah, that...
...took the fedayeen's side. Many openly roasted Lebanon's President Charles Helou for refusing to allow them free movement. But last week, shocked that the crisis showed no signs of letup, the Arabs grew uneasy. Nasser invited both sides to conciliatory talks. Lebanese Army Chief Emile Bustani promptly flew into Cairo with proposals for a truce. In agreeing to the meeting, Helou insisted that "Lebanon's sovereignty should not be less than that of any other Arab state." In other words, he still wanted final say about where the guerrillas should operate...
Died. Emile Bustani. 55, founder and chairman of Lebanon's $60 million Contracting & Trading Co. (CAT), the Middle East's biggest and most important industrialist, a friend of the West who was a firm advocate of inter-Arab economic development; in the crash of his private plane; in the Mediterranean near Beirut...
Life Sentence. Unwilling to be "just a businessman," Bustani is the confidant of most of the Mideast's rulers, and the author of two provocative books on "the Arab problem." A Maronite Christian and Western in his ways, he is both an intense Arab nationalist and an intense advocate of Arab partnership with the West. His formula for establishing such a partnership: both sides must forget the past, start over with mutual respect...