Word: gemayels
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...Gemayel takes charge amid hopes that foreign forces will leave...
...leave until the Israelis do. The long-range U.S. goal in Lebanon is to create enough stability on the northern border of Israel to reduce its security fears and lead to some solution of the Palestinian issue. To that end, the White House announced late last week that Gemayel had accepted Reagan's invitation to come to Washington on Oct. 19 for an "official working visit." Said Veliotes: "We're trying to make something better happen out of a whole series of horrors...
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...
...foreign forces withdraw from Lebanon, the question will then be whether the new government of Amin Gemayel, who was elected only two weeks ago, can effectively reconcile the Christian and Muslim communities that have been at odds since the beginning of the civil war in 1975. Unlike his brother Bashir, who was assassinated only nine days before he was supposed to take office, Amin remains an unknown quantity. Though perceived as weak and inexperienced, Amin should benefit from his record as a conciliatory figure in Lebanon's fractious political world. While Bashir attempted to impose Christian supremacy in Lebanon...
Israel, at the same time, has developed a more realistic attitude toward its northern neighbor. The Begin government, which helped train Bashir Gemayel's militia, was badgering the late President-elect only a few weeks ago for important concessions, including a peace treaty with Israel. After one meeting in which Begin repeatedly addressed Bashir, 34, as "young man," an insult in the Middle East, Bashir returned to Beirut protesting that "they won't let me have my dignity." Amin does not share his brother's fondness for Israel, and the Begin government is determined to treat...