Word: chamoun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's civil war, Moghabghab, a Christian (Greek Catholic), sided with Christian (Maronite) President Camille Chamoun. In the mountainous Chouf area near his home, he led a private army of his own against the forces of Kamal Jumblatt, chieftain of the Druses, craggy mountaineers who practice the secret rites of an Islamic heresy. When Jumblatt's army overran his village, Moghabghab burned his own home to the ground rather than let it fall to the enemy...
Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...
...northern Lebanon, surrounded by vineyards, orchards and stony fields, lie the Christian village of Kobeyat and the Moslem village of Jaafra. But there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat supported the government of President Camille Chamoun; the 2,000 Moslems of Jaafra enthusiastically backed the rebels. At one point armed raiders from Jaafra stormed the police post in Kobeyat, killed a Christian woman and wounded five other villagers before being driven...
...luckless Lebanon, it showed signs of turning into an uglier situation than the one the U.S. went in to reverse. This time it is the Christian half of the populace, rallying closer to former President Camille Chamoun than they did when he was in office, who are the rebels. Chamoun now excoriates the U.S. for endorsing a regime that contains only his enemies. Just as Chamoun swung too Westward for Lebanon's Moslems to stomach, now the rebelled Cabinet swings too far toward Nasser for Chamoun and the Christians to tolerate...
That night Chehab's army cracked down as it never had when Chehab was merely army chief, charged with upholding the authority of the Chamoun government. Troops were ordered to shoot armed civilians on sight. Army patrols shot and killed two men who pulled guns to stop a car in the Moslem quarter. Phalange Chief Pierre Gemayel hastily announced he was all for peace...