Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting increased, Premier Amin Hafez gave in to Franjieh's demands and declared a state of emergency, effectively giving the mostly Christian army control over the country. The next day, as Lebanese jet fighter-bombers joined the fray for the second week in a row, Hafez resigned. A Moslem, he had been in office only 13 days and had replaced Saeb Salam, another Moslem, who resigned after last month's Israeli attacks...
...Hafez's resignation had little impact. Tough, short-fused Franjieh had clearly been in full control from the start. One of his major worries was the pro-fedayeen activity of Lebanon's Opposition Leader Kamal Jumblatt and other left-wing or Moslem politicians. Jumblatt called a secret meeting to organize political agitation in support of the guerrillas. Later, a member of Parliament from Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party was caught trying to smuggle arms into Beirut from the Syrian border. His car contained 35 submachine guns, five bundles of dynamite and seven bazookas. There were other signs...
With the streets eerily deserted except for government troops, Lebanese Premier Amin Hafez, accompanied by three Cabinet ministers and ten bodyguards, met with Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who had 50 armed guerrillas with him. During the night, on neutral ground at the Makassed Hospital, they worked out a cease-fire agreement under which the army hostages were released. Before dawn, however, heavy firing broke out anew at a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, across St. George's Bay. Soon sporadic shooting resumed in other areas and spread well beyond Beirut...
...step consisted of a visit to Washington by Hafez Ismail, 57, President Anwar Sadat's national security adviser, who is commonly described as Cairo's Henry Kissinger. Egypt lately has shown unaccustomed signs of willingness to discuss peace, if not to agree to specific terms. After visits to Moscow and London, Ismail sought, and was quickly granted the opportunity to become an American President's first direct Egyptian contact since relations between Washington and Cairo were severed in 1967. Ismail's visit suggested that Egypt is aware that the road to peace with Israel runs through...
...weeks ago Syrian President Hafez Assad stopped off in Cairo on his way home from the Soviet Union. His relations with Moscow have become more genial as the Russians have stepped up their cultivation of Mideast allies other than Egypt. The gist of Assad's message from the Russians was: no offensive weapons for Egypt. That was grim news for Sadat, who had been facing growing pressures at home...