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...fight over succession really began in mid-August, just before the scheduled parliamentary election, when former President Sulieman Franjieh, 78, a close friend of Syrian President Hafez Assad, announced his candidacy. Assad, whose 40,000 troops in Lebanon reinforce his claim to be the country's dominant power broker, has been pressing for political reforms that would ensure a more equitable distribution of influence between Christians and Muslims. Muslims constitute an estimated 55% of the population. By tradition, the President has always been a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and the Speaker of the National Assembly...
...Cabinet enjoyed a singularly inauspicious debut. No sooner were the assignments announced than Berri refused to have any part of them. Jumblatt decided that he would not join until Berri's grievances were answered. Apparently in sympathy for his father-in-law, ex-President Suleiman Franjieh, who was overlooked in the new Cabinet, Interior Minister-elect Abdullah Rassi also declined to attend the Cabinet's first meeting...
...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 to be showing signs of a change of heart...
...leaders, former President Camille Chamoun, 83, and Pierre Gemayel, 79, father of the current President, offered plans that would have created separate and independently administered Christian and Muslim "cantons," while leaving the presidency and other important posts in Christian hands. They were joined by another former Maronite President, Suleiman Franjieh, 73, who had helped found the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front last year but broke with that group in the course of the recent conference...
...sectarian quagmire," the Syrian government newspaper, Tishrin, asked whether the country's leaders "will learn this lesson, or have they become so insensitive that only cauterization will work for them?" Having supported President Gemayel during the conference, the Syrians privately blamed the Christian "godfathers," Chamoun, Franjieh and Pierre Gemayel, for the breakdown...