Word: gemayel
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TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's former Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan. The massacre of the Palestinians, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, was carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. In finding that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance" when he ordered the militiamen into the camps, the Kahan commission concluded that he bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," the commission stated...
...terrorism issue that caused the Cabinet split over withdrawal. Shamir and other Likud members argue that the possibility of P.L.O. attacks should remain a paramount concern in Jerusalem: a pullback without firm security guarantees from the Gemayel government will simply allow P.L.O. guerrillas to filter back into southern Lebanon. That, in Shamir's words, would amount to "abandoning the Galilee...
...Israeli Cabinet, rather than local commanders, will decide what action, if any, Israeli forces should take in response. But Jerusalem would rather leave any such matter to the Lebanese. Said Major General Ori Orr, head of Israel's Northern Command: "I prefer to leave that problem to Amin Gemayel." The chances that the Lebanese Army could step in successfully under such chaotic circumstances are thought to be negligible. Partisan militiamen, for example, control the heights overlooking the road between Sidon and Beirut, and that link could be easily cut in the event of an upheaval. Said a Western diplomat...
...TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan. The killings, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and thus bore "indirect responsibility" for what happened; Sharon resigned his Defense post two days after the findings were released...
...paragraph at issue in Sharon's lawsuit comes halfway through the eight- page story; it described a condolence call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after Bashir's death and said that information about the visit was contained in a classified Appendix B to the report. The passage went on to say: "Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge...