Word: chamoun
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...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...
...neutral observers"; 2) a Lebanese "security committee" will decide on a permanent force to patrol the Chouf Mountains; and 3) most important, Lebanon's major groups will be called together for a conference of national reconciliation. In addition to President Amin Gemayel, the dozen invitees include Camille Chamoun, head of the Christian Lebanese Front; Pierre Gemayel, the President's father and founder of the right-wing Christian Phalange; the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front (including Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt); Nabih Berri of the Amal Shi'ite militia; and former Prime Minister Saeb Salam...
...rising to Maronite leadership, Bashir had to fight not only Palestinians and leftist Muslims but also some of his fellow Maronites. In the tense atmosphere, a minor automobile mishap could touch off a firefight between Bashir's Phalangist warriors and the "tigers" of former President Camille Chamoun, often with bloody results. Gemayel's Phalangists were accused of murdering a son and granddaughter of former President Suleiman Franjieh (whose own followers, according to local belief, had once gunned down 17 members of a rival family in a church in northern Lebanon...
Eventually Gemayel concluded that to defend the community successfully he could not afford the luxury of internal strife. His Phalangists took on Chamoun gunners and won. As the undisputed leader of the Maronites, young Bashir Gemayel welded the Phalangist, Chamounis and other Christian militias into one fighting group called "the Lebanese forces...