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...Gemayel picks a pro-Syrian
...naming Rashid Karami his country's new Prime Minister last week, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel truly opted for a man with experience: since 1955 Karami, 62, had held the job nine times. Yet, as accustomed as he is to being Lebanon's man for all crises, Karami's tenth try is likely to be the toughest of all. He must form a Cabinet that reflects both the hopes for peace and the desires for power of his country's warring religious factions. "Let us bury our hatreds and sectarian prejudices," Karami implored his countrymen after...
Karami follows Chafik al Wazzan, who resigned in February just before fighting erupted between the Lebanese Army and Muslim militias. The battle almost toppled the Gemayel presidency. It also hastened the departure of the U.S. Marines and brought Lebanon more deeply under Syrian control. The Lebanese Prime Minister is traditionally a Sunni Muslim, just as the President is traditionally a Maronite Christian, but Karami met the far more important requirement of enjoying the strong support of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Gemayel made his decision after meeting with the Syrian leader two weeks...
While Wazzan's Cabinet had ten members, Karami will select at least 26 ministers in order to accommodate all interests. "The cake will be cut a bit thinner but a bit more equitably this time," summed up a Muslim politician. Two of Gemayel's strongest opponents, Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, are expected to get important positions, along with the principal Maronite leaders, Pierre Gemaye and Robert Franjieh. Camille Chamoun, the obdurate head of the Christian Lebanese Front, has said he will not serve under Karami, but even he seemed...
...motorists and pedestrians raced to get home or to basement shelters. More than 30 people were killed and scores of others injured, making March 28 the worst single day of violence in seven weeks. The heavy shelling led to urgent consultations among Lebanon's warlords, and President Amin Gemayel convened the first meeting of the security commission created at the Lausanne conference. A tenuous cease-fire seemed to end yet another spurt of chaos...