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...least three bystanders were killed. More than 100 people have been killed in the past two months in clashes between the militia of Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and the Phalangist-dominated Christian militias known as the Lebanese Forces. Before the latest incident, the government of President Amin Gemayel asked the U.S. to help maintain order by doubling the size of its 1,200-man Marine contingent in .,. Lebanon. The Administra-|tion said it would consider doing so only after the with-Ejdrawal of foreign armies i from Lebanon had begun...
Instead of distinct friction between the religious factions. Salem says a nationalistic feeling began to unite the Lebanese people. He points to the unanimous election of the new President--Amir Gemayel as an indication of this unity...
...Lebanese can do is turn to each other. There's a growing feeling in Lebanon that, after all, we're all Lebanese, so we have to turn to build on what we do have, a common Lebanese back.... browned. [Gemayel] is a very solid Lebanese and the people recognize that it is in everybody's best interest to support and agree on something Lebanese, father than to raise the banner of this or that...
...members of the commission reminded Begin that the Phalangists had committed other massacres in the past. They also read from Cabinet minutes and other documents to show that the possibility of revenge killings by the militiamen in the aftermath of the assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel had been raised not only in Begin's presence but by the Prime Minister himself. He had, in fact, told U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper that the Israeli army had moved into West Beirut, in defiance of the agreement that had been negotiated for the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, "to prevent...
Until last week, the Lebanese Forces were unchallenged as the dominant military group in East Beirut, while the fledgling Lebanese army had taken over the security of Muslim West Beirut. But Gemayel was anxious to exert the authority of the central government over East as well as West Beirut. And so, at midweek, he sent the Lebanese army into the eastern sector of the city along with elements of the multinational force...