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...shores of the Mediterranean, the town of Damur lies twelve miles south of Beirut along the coastal highway. Damur is in a mountainous region of Lebanon known as the Chouf. The area is home to two of Lebanon's best-known political leaders, Maronite Christian Camille Chamoun and Druze Kamal Jumblatt. Last week, in retaliation for a rightist Christian attack on a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, leftist and Druze militiamen, led by fedayeen officers, laid siege to Damur, an important road junction and rightist stronghold. For five days it was shelled by mortars and rockets. TIME Beirut Bureau...
Private Militias. As the shooting flared up, so did the simmering political battle between leftists and rightists, Moslems and Christians within Karami's six-month-old "rescue government." An emergency meeting of the National Dialogue Committee broke up after 30 minutes because neither Maronite-Christian Interior Minister Camille Chamoun nor Druze Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt showed up. Both men control private militias, which were locked in street battle at the time of the meeting. Karami, infuriated by his Interior Minister's boycott of the meeting, complained that he was "incapable of returning the situation to normal because...
...them in the U.S.), Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat as friends, once blessed a delegation of Moslem mullahs as they prayed to Mecca: "The British have a well-known phrase, 'In His Majesty...
Lebanon declared an open-ended state of emergency in the wake of the raid. "Since 1948 we have been in a state of truce with Israel," declared former President Camille Chamoun. "Today we are in a state of war." Premier Saeb Salam, who had long avoided a showdown with the guerrillas, laid down a set of 14 demands to Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat. Their purpose was to hamper any guerrilla movements and prevent further Israeli revenge...
...working for British intelligence. Philby's charge was clearly part of a "disinformation" campaign designed to divert attention from the big spy case in London. One unexpected result was to disrupt a Soviet campaign to cultivate Lebanon's influential moderate and right-wing leaders. Former President Camille Chamoun, whose eldest son Dorian was named by Philby, angrily canceled a dinner he had planned to give for Soviet Ambassador Sarvar Azimov...