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...leaders of Lebanon's feuding factions rarely come together voluntarily under any circumstances, but such an occasion took place last Wednesday when Bashir Gemayel was buried in his native village of Bikfaya, to the east of Beirut. Only a day or two before, Pierre Gemayel, 77, the family patriarch and founder of the Phalangist Party, had stood with his sons Bashir and Amin to begin what was to have been a weeklong ceremony of receiving well-wishers awaiting the inauguration of Bashir as Lebanon's President. Now, as the trumpets blared and Israeli jet fighters screamed overhead in tribute...
...Gemayel was aiming for national unity when he was killed...
During his five years as TIME'S bureau chief in Cairo, Wilton Wynn frequently covered the fighting in war-torn Lebanon. Now the bureau chief in Rome, Wynn was back in Lebanon last week when Bashir Gemayel was assassinated. A few days earlier, Wynn had obtained the only interview with Gemayel after his election as President, and the last one, it was to turn out, that the Christian leader was to give. Wynn's impressions...
LIKE A CEDAR THAT HAS BEEN FELLED! was the banner head used by the Beirut daily L 'Orient-Le Jour in reporting the violent death at age 34 of the country's President-elect, Bashir Gemayel. The cedar is the symbol of Lebanon, especially associated with the mountains. Like the cedar, Bashir Gemayel was a product of Mount Lebanon. The cedar grows and flourishes in harsh surroundings, in unfriendly weather, and so did Bashir Gemayel. He lived in a tough and uncompromising world, reached its zenith, and was felled...
...year-old ancestral home in the mountains outside Beirut that Bashir Gemayel received us for the interview. From the windows of the pink stone house there is a breathtakingly beautiful view of the mountain slopes with their olive groves and grapevines among gray boulders. But Maronite Christians like the Gemayels did not settle in Lebanon because of its beauty. They chose those mountains because of security, a rugged area ideal for defense, where a lonely Christian community could defend itself and survive in a sea of sometimes hostile Muslim neighbors. The Maronites survived without ever being reduced to minority status...