Word: chamoun
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...through a capital seething under a 48-hour curfew. In all its five-month civil war, Lebanon had never been more tense. This time it was the Christians who had erupted into new violence in protest against the abduction of a Christian journalist and backer of retiring President Camille Chamoun...
From the Barricades. But next day the announcement of the new Cabinet set off fresh protests from Christians and pro-Western Moslems. Chehab's choice for Premier was Rashid Karami, 37, a Moslem lawyer who led the rebel resistance in Tripoli. Chamoun's most fanatical backers vowed that they would fight rather than accept a Premier from "the barricades." From the mountain village to which he had retired, Chamoun fanned the flames with a statement: "The new Cabinet is not satisfactory to me." Members of the khaki-shirted Christian Phalange, a strong-arm outfit that has been...
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...
...Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though he is careful not to say so publicly, privately he is known to consider Nasser a sincere man who is dangerously provincial, unaware...
Hammarskjold's mission looked better in Lebanon-but largely because Lebanon's crisis seemed to be quieting down. The incoming regime of President-elect Fuad Chehab had gained wide internal backing. But neither Chehab nor President Camille Chamoun could give any commitments. No U.N. presence was established to permit all U.S. troops to withdraw, though last week the U.S. pulled out 2,000 more marines...