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...Christian nation which has been torn for two months by an internal revolt against pro-Western President Camille Chamoun, which is aided and abetted by arms, men and radio encouragement from Nasser. At the beginning of the week, both weary sides were reportedly ready to agree on Army Chief Fuad Shehab as new President. But success of the revolt in Iraq undoubtedly would set the Lebanese rebels against any compromise...
...drive for political dominance, he has alienated far more than the fanatical Nasser lovers. Last week ex-Foreign Ministry Secretary Fuad Ammoun, a Christian, claimed that six of Lebanon's eight political parties, all the religious leaders, all the former Presidents, Premiers, Foreign Ministers and Speakers of Parliament have taken a stand against the Chamoun regime. Anger at Chamoun is the only single force that unites the divided rebel leadership, much of which is tribal and local and asserts its authority now largely because the government does not or cannot. Many leaders of the Moslem Arabs themselves are politicians...
...General Fuad Shehab, 56, patrician, arthritic, French-trained professional soldier, has headed Lebanon's 8,000-man army since 1945. A Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except...
...Beatitude Paul Meouchi, onetime Los Angeles parish priest who is now patriarch of the Maronite Roman Catholic sect to which Chamoun and most Lebanese Christians belong, said in a press conference that the President should "take a trip" abroad and turn over power to Army Chief Brigadier General Fuad Shehab. Otherwise, he warned, the half-Christian, half-Moslem republic of Lebanon might see its civil war turn into a disastrous religious conflict...
Second Term. After quelling last week's only big outburst of street fighting (20 dead) in Tripoli, the army left the road open so that the leader of the Tripoli rebels could motor unmolested for coffee and peace talks with Chief of Staff Brigadier General Fuad Shehab in Beirut. But efforts to bring the warring parties to compromise came to nothing. U.S. weapons kept arriving for Chamoun's security forces, and rebel bombs kept exploding in Beirut's marketplaces, to keep shops shut and the general strike going...