Word: gemayels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaky cease-fire gives Gemayel a respite...
...Marines was casual and at times almost furtive. The difference was not merely of style; throughout their stay, the Italians were able to maintain their role as peace keepers, while the American force came to be seen as an active supporter of the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian. With the departure of the British, the Italians and the bulk of the American contingent, the 1,250-man French unit was the only component of the Multi-National Force left hi Lebanon. French officials said again last week that they hoped to stay on until some different...
...amounts of ammunition and the elaborate network of underground bunkers in which they had sought refuge. A final problem was to whom they should bequeath the closed airport, though the choice of legatee was not theirs. The Lebanese Army was supposed to take over, in the name of the Gemayel government. At the end, however, the Marines were set to be replaced by members of the Lebanese Sixth Brigade, a predominantly Muslim army unit that had generally remained in its barracks during the recent fighting...
...Gemayel was running out of time, and his enemies knew it. The Syrians and most Lebanese Muslims were demanding that he abrogate the treaty he made with the Israelis last May 17 calling for an Israeli withdrawal and for future accommodations between Lebanon and Israel. Gemayel had agreed to the treaty, though it was never ratified, and he would have renounced it late last fall if the Reagan Administration, which pressed him to accept it in the first place, had been in agreement. On the other hand, many of his own Maronite Christians, possibly including even his father Pierre, head...
...difference is much more than semantic. Naval gunfire to protect the Marines is allowed under a resolution that Congress passed last September authorizing the President to keep U.S. forces in Lebanon until April 1985; shelling to help Gemayel's forces win the Lebanese civil war is not. Reagan emphatically does not need any more trouble with Congress, where many Republicans as well as Democrats are grumbling that he got the U.S. into a no-win situation in Lebanon. Says G.O.P. Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island: "That shelling is terrible, completely contrary to what we stand for." Congress, however...