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...request, 3,500 U.S. marines landed. When the U.S. troops, more than 14,000 at one point, left three months later, not a single Lebanese had been killed or injured by the Americans. Tank treads in the sand have long since been obliterated; a four-man Cabinet under President Fuad Chehab, the relaxed army boss, still governs Lebanon by legislative decree; business is good once more. Net effect: the Middle East learned that the U.S. is ready to intervene (and ready to leave peacefully) and that the U.S.S.R. threatened noisily but did not arrive...
...possibility that the Iraqi antagonism to him might spread to his own unhappy northern province of Syria, Nasser traveled one day to an aluminum army hut hurriedly set up on the border between Syria and Lebanon. There, protected by tanks and antiaircraft guns, he met Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab for the first time. Reported gist of their agreement: Chehab would back Nasser in his dispute with Iraq if Nasser guaranteed that he would not try to incorporate Lebanon into his United Arab Republic...
...shrewd dealing (cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into villas and a luxurious sports club and race track to provide him the pleasures-denied him by his origins -of the stuffy Alexandria Sporting Club
...nearly a month there had been a fresh wave of kidnapings and killings. Though the fighting that the U.S. Marines had been sent in to discourage had presumably ended with the election of an above-the-battle general, Fuad Chehab, as President, it quickly broke out anew. Chehab's choice for Premier, a pro-Nasser rebel named Rashid Karami, had loaded his Cabinet with Nasserites. The precarious fifty-fifty balance of Christians and Moslems, which alone has kept Lebanon tranquil in the past, was broken again. This time it was the Christians who became the rebels...
...tough street mob belonging to the Christian Phalange,* the new rebels have tied up the streets and shops of Beirut with strikes and rioting more effectively than the Moslem rebels ever did. Last week, as more than a dozen Lebanese died, the new President, Fuad Chehab, was providing continuing proof of his immense capacity for doing nothing. As another 1,000 U.S. soldiers were evacuated, U.S. officials fretted over the danger of religious warfare between Christians and Moslems...