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...experience who was trusted by most of his country's warring factions. By the time he was assassinated last week, in the explosion of a bomb aboard his military helicopter, Rashid Karami, 65, had served ten times as Lebanon's Prime Minister. The country's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel -- whose brother Bashir had been killed by a bomb in 1982 -- quickly named another Sunni Muslim, Selim Hoss, as acting Prime Minister. Suspects in the murder ranged from Christian Phalangists to Shi'ite radicals. At week's end Parliament Speaker Hussein Husseini, the government's ranking Shi'ite Muslim, resigned...
...massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon. Time asserted that there was a secret "Appendix B" to the commission's report which claimed that Sharon spoke with Lebanese Christian leaders about "the need...to take revenge" on the Palestinians for the assassination of President Bashir Gemayel...
...report by the Voice of Lebanon, which is anti-Syrian and affiliated with President Amin Gemayel's right-wing Christian Phalange Party, could not be confirmed independently...
...back 150 years in history. Dr. Haddad also correctly pointed out that what really makes the U.S. a superpower, a "great power," is that its policy is guided by principles of freedom and democracy. He drew on personal experiences when he was an advisor to the Lebanese president Amin Gemayel (1982-84) to prove that the American officials whom he got to know personally worked tirelessly to help Lebanon regain its sovereignty and freedom from the occupying regional powers. For that, Dr. Haddad and most Lebanese are very grateful...
Western observers assumed that the explosion was linked to an ongoing struggle between Lebanon's rival Christian factions. Less than a week earlier, 350 died when troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel defeated a militia force headed by Elias Hobeika, who fled to Paris and then to Damascus. The fight stems from Gemayel's rejection of a Syrian-brokered agreement that was supposed to have brought an end to Lebanon's eleven-year-long civil war. The accord was signed by leaders of Lebanon's Druze and Shi'ite Muslim militias and even by Hobeika, but was turned down...