Word: chamoun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maronite Christian leaders, former President Camille Chamoun, 83, and Pierre Gemayel, 79, father of the current President, offered plans that would have created separate and independently administered Christian and Muslim "cantons," while leaving the presidency and other important posts in Christian hands. They were joined by another former Maronite President, Suleiman Franjieh, 73, who had helped found the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front last year but broke with that group in the course of the recent conference...
...accept it in the first place, had been in agreement. On the other hand, many of his own Maronite Christians, possibly including even his father Pierre, head of the Phalange Party, wanted not only to honor the treaty but to reinforce Phalangist ties with Israel. Both former President Camille Chamoun and Fady Frem, chief of staff of the Phalange-dominated Lebanese Forces militia, told Gemayel that he would lose their support if he abandoned the treaty. Though many urged him to resign, Gemayel was said to be determined to hold...
...West, the Christians have a split personality. They are Arabs who often look to the West for inspiration and assistance, a minority that insists it must rule in order to survive, and nationalists in a land that is so fractured it can hardly be called a nation. Explains Camille Chamoun...
...days, during which time Gemayel was to fly to Washington and several Arab capitals to discuss his country's problems and particularly the treaty with Israel. The vote was taken following a private meeting between Gemayel and opposition leaders, after which the President persuaded his father and Chamoun, the most ardent advocates of the accord with Israel, to fall in line "for the sake of national unity...
...Abel. If Lebanon's warring sects are given a chance to disagree, they will. This time, Suleiman Franjieh, a former President (1970-76) and one of the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front, announced that he would not attend any conference held in Lebanon, while Camille Chamoun, head of the right-wing Christian Lebanese Front, declared that he would not show up at talks convened outside the country...