Word: jumblatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seats, and it distributed them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, 35, was offered Transport, Public Works and Tourism. Said one prominent Sunni powerbroker: "I guess Karami thinks that by co-opting a Cabinet rather than forming one through consensus, he can steamroll issues through...
...Cabinet enjoyed a singularly inauspicious debut. No sooner were the assignments announced than Berri refused to have any part of them. Jumblatt decided that he would not join until Berri's grievances were answered. Apparently in sympathy for his father-in-law, ex-President Suleiman Franjieh, who was overlooked in the new Cabinet, Interior Minister-elect Abdullah Rassi also declined to attend the Cabinet's first meeting...
...Cabinet had ten members, Karami will select at least 26 ministers in order to accommodate all interests. "The cake will be cut a bit thinner but a bit more equitably this time," summed up a Muslim politician. Two of Gemayel's strongest opponents, Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, are expected to get important positions, along with the principal Maronite leaders, Pierre Gemaye and Robert Franjieh. Camille Chamoun, the obdurate head of the Christian Lebanese Front, has said he will not serve under Karami, but even he seemed to be showing signs...
...your sandbags ready," snapped Walid Jumblatt, the volatile leader of Lebanon's Druze community, as he emerged from the elegant lakeside Beau Rivage Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. His message was all too clear. After nine days, the latest negotiations to bring about a reconciliation of Lebanon's religious factions had ended in failure, and a return to warfare seemed inevitable...
Among the opposition delegates, Shi'ite Leader Nabih Bern, Sunni Leader Rashid Karami and Jumblatt all supported the retention of a unified system for Lebanon but called for a diminution of Christian power. They accepted reluctantly the proposition that the presidency should remain in Maronite hands, but they wanted the powers of the job trimmed. One proposal was that the Prime Minister, traditionally a Sunni Muslim, should be given more authority, including the right to veto top-level appointments in the army and civil service. Since "the post of army commander has customarily gone to a Maronite, the Christian...