Word: gemayels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed national reconciliation conference be binding upon the Lebanese government. In addition, Assad was said to be insisting that the conference take the position that the Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal accord be abandoned. And yet, just as Lebanon appeared headed for still another round of heavy fighting, McFarlane met with Gemayel this Sunday to tell him that the two sides had agreed, after all, to a ceasefire. Reagan later called Gemayel to congratulate him on the news...
Simply by being there, though, the MNF has brought an unaccustomed measure of security to Beirut and its environs. That in turn has enabled Lebanese President Amin Gemayel to preserve the semblance of a central government by maintaining authority at least around the capital, and so far has probably prevented Lebanon from taking the final plunge into anarchy, partition or both. But that very fact has made the MNF a target for the many Lebanese factions determined to bring down Gemayel. Already, five U.S. Marines, 17 French troops and one Italian have been killed; 43 Americans, 41 French...
...under separate commands that cooperate only to the extent of keeping one another informed, more or less, about what they are doing. The U.S. Marines have a liaison officer at the headquarters of each of the other three contingents, and military men from all four nations maintain links with Gemayel's Lebanese Army through officers at the Presidential Palace in Baabda. But that is just about it. The Americans have been pressing for coordinated planning to deal with a deepening emergency, so far with little result...
...conservative opposition demanded a hit-back-or-get-out policy before Socialist President François Mitterrand last week ordered retaliation against attacks on the French troops. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party is grumbling that the MNF should be used strictly for peace keeping rather than to keep Gemayel in power, although the angriest words on the subject have come from a nationalistic faction of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. Still, like the Reagan Administration, the French, Italian and British governments express determination to maintain their forces in Lebanon as long as they are needed. -By George...
...Amin Gemayel talks about his country and its neighbors...