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...Lebanon: from that day forward, the planes could be ordered to strike and destroy any artillery that continued to fire at troops of the four-country multinational force. The American, French, Italian and British troops had come as "peace keepers," to shore up the beleaguered government of President Amin Gemayel. Slowly and inexorably, however, they were being drawn into a maelstrom in which Lebanon's perennially warring factions continue to battle each other for political power...
...general agreement that the U.S. Marine contingent would remain in place, at least for the time being, a view that was quickly approved by Reagan in California. Though realistic about its chances, Washington instructed Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, Robert McFarlane, to pressure President Amin Gemayel to continue trying to gather Lebanon's factions into a government of national reconciliation...
...conditional upon the removal of 60,000 Syrian troops, and Syria, it soon became apparent, had no intention of accepting an agreement that it had played no part in framing. Washington's real aim was to get the foreign troops out of Lebanon in order to give Amin Gemayel a chance to rebuild his country. In the end, however, Reagan became fearful that too sudden a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Beirut area could create an even greater problem for the Gemayel government...
...latest round of fighting in Beirut was set off by a rivalry over political posters. Two weeks ago, the Christian Phalangists celebrated the first anniversary of the late Bashir Gemayel's election as President by putting up posters of their martyred hero. Last week it was the turn of Beirut's large Shi'ite Muslim community. It launched a poster campaign to honor its spiritual leader, Imam Musa Sadr, who disappeared five years ago during a visit to Libya. On Sunday afternoon, several young men in a predominantly Shi'ite suburb in the south of Beirut...
...Wednesday evening, President Gemayel appealed for a national reconciliation and invited eleven prominent political figures, including the three leaders of the Salvation Front, to meet with him. After the army's successful campaign in West Beirut, however, Walid Jumblatt was in no mood to talk with the leaders of a government whose real ami, he said, was to "butcher the Muslims." Like everyone else in Lebanon, he knew that the army's next big test would come as the Israeli forces withdraw from the rugged Chouf and Aley regions where the Christians and the Druze live side...