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...Nada Khaled Yashruti, 33, the widow of a former Al-Fatah leader, was fatally riddled with twelve bullets as she entered her home in the well-to-do district of Raouche. She had just come from trying to help negotiate a cease-fire with Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh. A Lebanese newsman was killed when soldiers raked the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a nearby area...
Decisive Move. That agreement obviously no longer held, and Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh. after successfully petitioning the United Nations Security Council to censure Israel, held worried meetings at his Baabda Palace residence outside Beirut. "Instead of wasting our energies in shouting and unproductive chanting," Franjieh finally suggested, "why don't we give blood generously to the Red Cross so we may care for our casualties." In a more decisive move, Lebanese troops moved into Fatahland to police and contain the fedayeen...
Sitting Idle. Nasser's most trustworthy allies at the summit were Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, Lebanon's new President, Suleiman Franjieh, and Sudan's strongman, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, who served as mediator between the Cairo conferees and the antagonists in Jordan. It was the goal of Nasser to stop the fighting before either side achieved victory. Nasser still needs as much of a Palestinian "constituency," as one Egyptian official put it, as he can salvage; but he also would like to keep Hussein, his primary link to the West...
...rounds, and seldom travels without an escort of four or five gun-packing kinsmen. In the current elections taking place on four successive Sundays in Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon. Hamid is convinced that Chamoun's government...