Word: gemayel
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...amount of American aid to the Gemayel government or to any government that does not have the support of the Muslims will ever bring peace to Beirut. Religious unity is the key to political stability. The U.S. has never understood that fact...
...meeting of the various Lebanese factions is scheduled to take up that issue this week in Lausanne, Switzerland. As a prelude to the conference, the rump government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel last week did the expected by formally canceling its May 17 security agreement with Israel. But Gemayel's Druze and Muslim opponents in Lebanon will be asking for far more than that in Lausanne. They intend to demand a fundamental restructuring of the Christian-dominated power-sharing arrangement on which Lebanese politics have been based since...
Instead, Assad and Gemayel agreed on further consultations with both...
There was little that the other actors involved in the Lebanese drama could do but watch and hope. In Jerusalem, officials unhappily accepted the fact that their agreement with the Gemayel government was a dead letter. They also paid an additional price for the continuing Israeli occupation: early in the week, two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Shi'ite Muslim village of Arab Salmi, bringing the total number of Israeli fatalities in Lebanon to 571. Within shattered Beirut, the 1,250 French troops who are all that remain of the four-nation Multi-National Force were told that...
...after the last of the U.S. Marine contingent from Beirut International Airport had clambered aboard American vessels off shore, the frigate W.S. Sims lobbed a barrage of 20 naval shells onto Lebanese territory. The fire apparently was ordered to protect a small contingent of U.S. gunnery spotters working alongside Gemayel's Lebanese Army. Then the guns fell silent...