Word: gemayels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity and emerge as the pre-eminent power in the Middle East. By keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon and by supporting factions opposed to the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future. By fueling the raging rebellion within the Palestine Liberation Organization against Chairman Yasser Arafat, Syria is intent on seizing control of the Palestinian movement. Finally, by bullying and cajoling its Arab neighbors, Syria is building what it hopes will...
...second burst of Middle East diplomacy just 22 hours later last week, President Reagan met with Lebanon's embattled President Amin Gemayel, and heard the closer U.S.-Israel ties criticized in a personal meeting with Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the U.S. Although mostly planned in advance, the week's activity had an air of urgency. Repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to solve the Lebanon crisis and the Palestinian dilemma, and with U.S. Marines still exposed to terrorism, shelling and sniper fire at the Beirut airport, the Administration felt it was time...
...American officials urged Shamir to consider making further unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon, this time in full consultation with both Washington and Gemayel. Shamir indicated that he might do so, but only if he were confident that Gemayel's forces could control any territory vacated by Israel. The sequence sought by U.S. planners was for Gemayel to share power with opposing factions, gaining control of more territory in return, followed by Israeli withdrawals. The power sharing would have to be worked out in Lebanon's national reconciliation talks. Shamir was asked to use Israel's influence with...
...White House was confident that progress on all this had been made with Shamir. "The Israelis are going to have to cooperate with us and Gemayel if there is going to be a Lebanon," an aide said. "They have come to the view that without Gemayel, Israel will be left holding the can in Lebanon...
...talks with Gemayel were less productive. The U.S. reportedly promised to continue to strengthen his forces, mainly with training advisers, so that they can control more territory. Any such progress would, of course, give Washington a rationale for moving its Marines to safer positions or to withdraw them completely. Privately, however, some U.S. officials fear that Gemayel is too timid and preoccupied with his personal safety to make any decisive moves...