Word: gemayels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fraught with uncertainties and hazards. It marked a victory of sorts for Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has opposed a negotiated pullback agreement between Israel and Lebanon. But, above all, Jerusalem's move shifted a new and perhaps unbearable burden onto the frail government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel: the maintenance of peace and order in southern Lebanon after the Israeli departure. If the weak Lebanese Army, which has been unable to guarantee security anywhere in the country, cannot fill the vacuum, Lebanon faces the possibility of factional bloodshed on an expanded scale. Said an Israeli army officer: "Soon will...
...about a negotiated withdrawal." Privately, an Administration official remarked that "we understand (Israel's) impatience, but we don't think this is the way to go about it." The Reagan Administration would prefer to see Israel quickly negotiate a satisfactory diplomatic solution that would pose fewer risks for the Gemayel government...
...along the Awali River, within five weeks. The troops will redeploy from their current lines about 25 miles inside Lebanon to a point between the Zahrani and Litani rivers, anywhere from seven to 20 miles to the south. An exact timetable will be submitted in advance to the Gemayel government and to the U.N. "in order to permit them to organize and deploy forces in the area...
...inquiry found that Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, and several other military officials shared an "indirect" responsibility for the massacre by Lebanese Phalangist soldiers of hundreds of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In one paragraph of its article, TIME reported that a secret appendix to the commission's published report--known as Appendix B--contained "further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family on the day after Bashir Gemayel's assassination...
...after Minister Sharon began litigation against TIME over this paragraph, the Israeli government has permitted an Israeli attorney representing TIME to examine this secret appendix. Based upon this examination last week, TIME now issues a correction: Appendix B does not contain further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family. TIME regrets that error...