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Kamal Jumblatt, 39, a hereditary chief of Druse mountain tribesmen and ex-Cabinet minister, formed his own socialist party in 1949, later backed the movement that installed Chamoun in office. A somewhat intellectual and moody mountaineer who studied in Paris and took to visiting an Indian ashram after his first parting with Chamoun, he now controls the south central area of Lebanon for the opposition. Chamoun's ultimate insult, he claims, was to deny him his ancestral parliamentary seat in last year's elections. As leader of a heretical Moslem sect, he is no friend to Islamic...
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...
...pastel rose and green entrance hall and climbed the Galilee-marble staircase (or took the elevator) to the huge reception hall on the fifth floor. They mingled there with a crush of notables as international as Israel herself: robed prelates of the Greek Orthodox and Coptic Churches, Moslem and Druse dignitaries, and members of the diplomatic corps (who kept their hats on like their Israeli hosts). There were even some English ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf-son-bobbing like exotic flowers in the wilderness of beards and black hats, and they caused a dither of commotion among...
...back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite, and Maronite against Maronite, the issue in last week's elections was really the worldly...
...were on edge. At a soccer game in Hama an Arab crowd began yelling "Pas de goal" ("Block that kick"). Sensitive Frenchmen thought they heard "A has De Gaulle" ("Down with De Gaulle"). That did it. Rioting spread from Hama to Horns and then to Damascus. The wild Djebel Druse country rose. Last week the trouble between Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant (TIME, June 4) suddenly became the world's trouble...