Word: chamoun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guests of Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, Kings, Presidents and other potentates met secretly in a UNESCO villa on the outskirts of Beirut. Escorted by goggled Lebanese motorcycle cops and gowned Bedouins armed with golden daggers and Tommy guns, Saudi Arabia's King Saud arrived in a heavily curtained Cadillac. Setting aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser...
...Beirut not long ago, John Scott of the publisher's office asked Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun what were the prerequisites for Arab-Israeli peace. The President frowned and said that Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov had somewhat absently asked the same question that very morning before he began to talk of trade in dried fruits. Sometimes he wondered, Chamoun added with a touch of bitterness, if the East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded...
...issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. He proposed that the paraders detour under the windows of President Camille Chamoun, a Christian...
This week Chamoun was in São PaulÔ, where the Avenida Paulista is dotted with the mosque-style homes of wealthy Lebanese. Next on his itinerary: Uruguay, where there are 15,000 Lebanese, and Argentina, where there...
With Lebanese-Brazilian links such as these, Chamoun's visit was sure to be friendly. He received the Grand Collar of the Southern Cross from Vargas, signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty, addressed Congress. Everywhere he plugged Arab-Latin American solidarity in the United Nations...