Word: gemayel
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...last week. Sharon has charged that TIME magazine libeled him in a February 1983 cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of some 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut. The killings, which followed the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were done by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The article extensively quoted the published report, which, among other things, found that then Defense Minister Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility for what had happened in the camps...
...with Peres for an hour. After seeing Mubarak in Cairo and lunching with Hussein in Amman, Murphy returned to Damascus on Friday. He met with Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam, Assad's chief trouble-shooter in Lebanon, then went to Beirut for another round with President Amin Gemayel...
...particularly acute in Lebanon. After last year's bombing of the embassy in West Beirut, U.S. diplomats began working out of the British embassy. But in late July they moved their offices to the new "annex" in East Beirut, partly because much of the government of President Amin Gemayel was located in that half of the city, but mainly because East Beirut was considered safer than West Beirut. The annex building was thought to be especially secure because it was located in Aukar, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. The move coincided with the departure from Lebanon...
DIED. Pierre Gemayel, 78, courtly, shrewd and strong-willed political chieftain of Lebanon's Christians, a key powerbroker in the country's factional political strife, and father of President Amin Gemayel and his brother Bashir, who was killed in 1982 before he could assume the presidency; of a heart attack; in Bikfaya, Lebanon. He helped found the right-wing Phalange Party in 1936 to protect the interests of Maronite Christians from submergence by Islam and a year later assumed its leadership; he fought French colonialists, Muslim rivals, Christian competitors, Syrians and Palestinians, and he survived several assassination attempts...
Militia commanders remain suspicious that the cease-fire will be used by their opponents only to consolidate positions before the next bout of warfare. While President Gemayel has accepted in principle reforms that would give the Muslims a bigger role in running Lebanon, the precise details have yet to be worked out. Unless progress comes quickly, rice and rose water could give way once again to rifles and revenge...