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...Suez showdown drove silver-haired President Camille Chamoun, 57, a Maronite Roman Catholic, as Lebanon Presidents must traditionally be,* to align Lebanon with the West, and later to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine. No sooner had he done so than Nasser flew into nearby Damascus to merge Syria into his new United Arab Republic and fire the hearts of Lebanese Moslems to join in the same sort of positive neutrality. Moslem opposition leaders were alarmed at the way President Chamoun, who won a three-quarters majority in last year's parliamentary elections, now proposed to alter the constitution so that...
When the government made a halfhearted effort to arrest Saeb Salam, his private army of 100 bullyboys drove cops back from his sandbagged mansion. Near the Syrian border, where avengers knifed to death the five customs guards who seized De San's guns, a Chamoun-hating Druse tribal leader named Kamal Jumblatt took to the field with an army of 2,000. Cried Beirut's Al-Masa (it was a comment on Lebanese freedom that opposition newspapers appeared uncensored all week): "0 Chamoun, resign! O Shehab, take over...
...Determined." But through a week of rioting, President Chamoun held out against quitting, and Brigadier General Fuad Shehab, the arthritic professional officer who commands Lebanon's brigade-size army, rebuffed all hints to move in -or even get tough. Six years ago he had ended a crisis by taking over as Acting President when Chamoun's predecessor had to resign over charges of corruption. But Shehab now insisted: "I do not want to be known as the destroyer of Presidents," and because he refused to take responsibility, the government refrained all week from imposing martial...
...used to be that only the identifiable anti-Americans turned on the U.S. Now the anti-American cry is being taken up by those who fear to be regarded as too friendly to the U.S. Last week, faced with mounting pro-Nasserism and growing opposition to President Camille Chamoun's drive to push through a constitutional amendment that would enable him to run for a second term, the pro-Western government of tiny Lebanon turned on the U.S. with biting acerbity...
...outlook: the opposition may try to call out the street mobs in an attempt to destroy not only the Chamoun regime but Lebanon's pro-Western policy...