Word: chehab
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...Soviet Union rattled its rockets, and 14,000 U.S. marines landed to ward off a threatened Communist or Nasserite takeover. Yet last week, when the Lebanese tried another election, the event was as quiet and disciplined as a New England town meeting. After a vote in parliament, President Fuad Chehab peacefully surrendered his office to President-elect Charles Helou. Since Helou means "sweet" in Arabic, newspapers headlined that his inauguration would begin "a sweet era" for Lebanon...
...ambitious, recalling for awhile the 1958 civil war in which Christian President Camille Chamoun's government was in conflict with pro-Nasser Moslems until U.S. Marines restored order. When the dust settled, Chamoun stepped down and both Christians and Moslems united behind the presidency of ascetic General Fuad Chehab, a Christian Arab whose policy is pro-Western, yet also friendly to Egypt's Nasser. Last week's revolt against Chehab was led by the Popular Syrian Party, a right-wing Moslem group dedi cated to uniting Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq into a single Arab state...
...until 90 out of 99 members ofParliament, including Salam, had signed a resolution "appealing to your patriot ism to save the country at this delicate hour" did Chehab let a delegation...
...distraught Deputies threatened a nationwide strike; others swore that they would camp in his front yard until he changed his mind. Chehab's wife called him aside, and 15 minutes later the President came back to say he would stay in after all. Joyously bodyguards fired their pistols into the air. One Deputy whipped out a small submachine gun from under his flowing sports shirt and blasted away. Every light in the district, including the Chehab villa, blinked out - somebody had hit the power line. In a candlelight celebration, the Deputies ceremoniously burned the President's resignation...
...trained Chehab really long so badly for the Riviera? Fellow officers recalled that, as a general, he had more than once "resigned" to get his way. Now he seemed in no hurry to appoint Salam to the coveted premiership. And after last week's rousing demonstration, every Lebanese politician knew that, whoever the Premier and whoever the Cabinet members. Fuad Chehab had proved that he was the country's indispensable...