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...Maronite Christian leaders, former President Camille Chamoun, 83, and Pierre Gemayel, 79, father of the current President, offered plans that would have created separate and independently administered Christian and Muslim "cantons," while leaving the presidency and other important posts in Christian hands. They were joined by another former Maronite President, Suleiman Franjieh, 73, who had helped found the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front last year but broke with that group in the course of the recent conference...
Almost in desperation, on the last day the delegates agreed to a further separation of the various militias and to a withdrawal of heavy weapons from the Beirut area. They also agreed to the formation of a security commission, to be headed by President Amin Gemayel, that will be charged with maintaining the ceasefire. Perhaps most important, they voted to establish a 32-member commission to prepare for the drafting of a new Lebanese constitution within six months. Considering the condition of the country, that was a tall order. "Maybe everyone will be back here in six months," mused...
...failure. Declaring that "Lebanon's salvation starts with bringing the country out of the sectarian quagmire," the Syrian government newspaper, Tishrin, asked whether the country's leaders "will learn this lesson, or have they become so insensitive that only cauterization will work for them?" Having supported President Gemayel during the conference, the Syrians privately blamed the Christian "godfathers," Chamoun, Franjieh and Pierre Gemayel, for the breakdown...
...embassy; a member of the embassy staff, Political Officer William Buckley, was kidnaped by three men at gunpoint as he left his apartment in West Beirut last Friday morning. Also gone, along with the Marine peace-keeping force, were the Reagan Administration's dreams of helping President Amin Gemayel rebuild his country. The leaders of Lebanon's Muslim and Christian factions met in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a round of reconciliation talks last week, but the only power broker on the premises was Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. In fact, the Lebanese representatives wryly referred to Khaddam...
...Gemayel's chief military opponents, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt and Nabih Berri, the head of the Shi'ite Amal militia, plan to seek a new electoral system for Lebanon's moribund 99-member parliament, involving nationwide proportional representation. If accepted, the arrangement would strongly favor the country's Muslims, who make up 50% to 60% of the Lebanese population. In addition, Jumblatt and Berri are determined to end the longstanding Christian Maronite domination of the upper reaches of the Lebanese civil service and army...