Word: jumblatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's civil war, Moghabghab, a Christian (Greek Catholic), sided with Christian (Maronite) President Camille Chamoun. In the mountainous Chouf area near his home, he led a private army of his own against the forces of Kamal Jumblatt, chieftain of the Druses, craggy mountaineers who practice the secret rites of an Islamic heresy. When Jumblatt's army overran his village, Moghabghab burned his own home to the ground rather than let it fall to the enemy...
Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...
Favored by the pause in the fighting brought about by the marines' arrival, he called on a score or so of Lebanese leaders in both camps. He went into the hills to see Kamal Jumblatt, the Druse rebel chieftain. He talked with the elusive General Fuad Shehab, whose unwillingness to fight the rebels has avoided a civil war-but prolonged the chaos. He regularly saw President Camille Chamoun, who now seemed willing at last to help to find a successor agreeable to the most reasonable of his opponents...
...General Shawkat Shukayr, former Syrian army chief, was directing Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's military operations...
Bland Challenge. As Secretary Dulles remarked at his press conference, there was some evidence that the presence of the 100-man U.N. Observation Group slowed deliveries of arms and men from Syria. Half-jokingly, Jumblatt told U.N. officers that where he formerly got a mule train of supplies every night, a caravan now arrived only every second or third night "because of you people." By contrast, the government's forces had plenty of arms, and last week U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock announced that additional U.S. shipments were...