Word: druzes
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...remaining Palestinian civilian population. In recent weeks, Shi'ite radicals have killed more than a dozen southern Lebanese as alleged collaborators with the Israelis. The Israeli pullback could spark a bloodier and more widespread settling of Lebanese scores. Precisely such an explosion took place between Lebanon's Christian and Druze militias following Israel's September 1983 withdrawal from the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut. Hundreds of Lebanese were killed and more than 100,000 were left homeless...
...Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable to extend its authority to Tripoli, also saw its tenuous grip around the city of Beirut loosen somewhat. Ten people were wounded when fighting erupted once more between rival Christian and Druze militias in the hills overlooking the capital...
...biggest impasses is how to rebuild the Lebanese Army. Muslim Cabinet members, especially Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, want a restructuring that would weaken the traditional Maronite Christian hold on senior military positions. Christian leaders, notably Phalangist Patriarch Pierre Gemayel and former President Camille Chamoun, are fiercely resisting that course...
...surprised most Lebanese and enraged many. For although the proposed Cabinet prudently included representatives from all six of Lebanon's main religious groups, it had only ten seats, and it distributed them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, 35, was offered Transport, Public Works and Tourism. Said one prominent Sunni powerbroker: "I guess Karami thinks that by co-opting...
While Wazzan's Cabinet had ten members, Karami will select at least 26 ministers in order to accommodate all interests. "The cake will be cut a bit thinner but a bit more equitably this time," summed up a Muslim politician. Two of Gemayel's strongest opponents, Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, are expected to get important positions, along with the principal Maronite leaders, Pierre Gemaye and Robert Franjieh. Camille Chamoun, the obdurate head of the Christian Lebanese Front, has said he will not serve under Karami, but even he seemed...