Word: chamoun
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...Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon. Hamid is convinced that Chamoun's government put up pistol-packing Father Dweihi as a candidate only to discredit the Franjieh clan and to block his own chances at the presidency...
...Eisenhower Doctrine. Last week, as the Lebanese voted in the first of four Sunday elections for a new 66-man Parliament, 15 out of the 22 government candidates up for election came out victors. Solh himself defeated El Yafi by a comfortable 19,098 to 16,270. President Camille Chamoun, who holds the real power in Lebanon, was not up for reelection, but his pro-Western policies got a ringing endorsement...
...Lebanon, pro-Nasser candidates met a humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's propaganda apparatus, Middle East News...
...dawn last week one of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Forrestal, her vast grey bulk towering out of the blue Levantine waters, steamed slowly into Beirut harbor. Hours later a party of Lebanese dignitaries headed by President Camille Chamoun climbed aboard, and the carrier headed back to sea for a demonstration of its capabilities. Among them: tight formations of dive bombers and jet fighters screaming over Beirut's rooftops, lifting away over the snowcapped mountains to the east and fanning out through the Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria...
...tiny Lebanon, most prosperous of Arab countries, a wave of bombings shook Beirut in protest of President Camille Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...