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...militia commanders yielded to Amin's authority after suffering a series of setbacks. On Feb. 6, Druze fighters in the hills southeast of Beirut drove the militiamen from the town of Aley, for which they have been battling since October...
...importance of resolving Lebanon's fragile status was underscored when Walid Jumblatt, the influential leader of the Muslim Druze community, narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. When a bomb exploded hi his car, Jumblatt suffered minor injuries, but a bodyguard and at least three bystanders were killed. More than 100 people have been killed in the past two months in clashes between the militia of Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and the Phalangist-dominated Christian militias known as the Lebanese Forces. Before the latest incident, the government of President Amin Gemayel asked the U.S. to help maintain...
...hardy and fiercely independent people, the Maronites struggled to preserve their culture through hundreds of years of foreign rule, first by the Arab caliphs (632-1258) and then by the Ottoman Turks. In the late 19th century, following a devastating massacre at the hands of the Druze sect, the Maronites were granted formal autonomy by the Turks. After the Ottoman empire was finally dissolved in 1920 and Lebanon came under French mandate, the Maronites continued to rule themselves. When Lebanon became independent in 1943, political power was divided among the various religious groups according to a 6-to-5 ratio...
...handicapped and retarded. Among its patients are Lebanese, Palestinians, Maronites, Druze, Sunnis, Shi'ites, Jews; all Lebanon is here. An Armenian lies curled up on the second-floor landing. His stained white shirt hangs outside his blue pants. He wears a gray suit jacket, even in this heat. Flies collect on his bare feet. He pays no attention. He wants to sleep. "There was nothing," he explains when asked about the bombing. He is said to have gone wild when the shelling started...
Thanks to Habib's efforts, Jumblatt became a pivotal force in working for a settlement that would avoid a final military confrontation. But the Druze leader objected from the beginning to negotiating under the shadow of Israeli guns. After the committee's first meeting early last week, Jumblatt accused Sarkis and Wazzan of being Israeli "messengers" asking him to deliver the P.L.O. Said Jumblatt: "Why don't we invite Sharon and save time?" As he spoke, dozens of Israeli tanks occupied positions overlooking the presidential palace, where the committee held its meetings...