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...political difficulties of Premier-Designate Rashid Karami, an eight-time Prime Minister (TIME, June 9), who after four frustrating weeks is still trying to put together a Cabinet that will be acceptable to Lebanon's principal political factions. The problem is that the Phalangists' leader, Sheik Pierre Gemayel, insists that his party be represented. Socialist Leader Kamal Jumblatt is equally determined that the Phalangists be frozen...
...several months, the leader of the right-wing, predominantly Christian Phalangist Party, Pierre Gemayel, 70, had been demanding that Palestinian guerrillas be barred from bearing arms. To Gemayel, the 320,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, including 5,000 under arms, represent a "state within a state" that exposed Lebanon to recurring Israeli attack. In mid-April a five-day battle in Beirut between Palestinians and the Phalangists' own 6,000-man militia left at least 150 dead and 300 injured...
Left-wing Lebanese believe that the country should do more to assist the Palestinians, despite its limited resources and mediocre 16,000-man army. Some rightists argue that the presence of armed fedayeen is a threat. The head of the Phalange, crusty Sheik Pierre Gemayel, 70, has characterized the fedayeen as "a state within a state" that has brought Lebanon "chaos...
...freighter that had been blacklisted for previous stops in Israel. When the ship arrived in Beirut harbor with 2,400 tons of wheat for the Palestinian Arab refugees, powerful voices throughout the Arab world demanded that it be sent away untouched. But Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel was too realistic for that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still...
...finishing high school, asked a dump-truck crew: "How much does this truck hold?" Five yards, they answered. Said Lyndon: "My first job was on a truck that held only one yard. We loaded it with shovels, then dumped it." Turning to Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel, Johnson added: "You're going to realize great benefits from work like this. In my country, one of the most important steps in our development was getting the farmers out of the mud. In my own state of Texas now, no farmer has to drive more than a mile...