Word: jumblatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to weaken its support for an agreement the Israelis consider important. Yet the U.S. also believes that national reconciliation is the only road to stability for Lebanon, and may have to make a gesture of support for the only result so far of the Geneva conference. As Walid Jumblatt, no friend of the young Lebanese President's, put it last week, "If the Americans send Gemayel back emptyhanded, it will be the end of him." Whatever the solution may be, the U.S. at this stage cannot afford to let Gemayel fail. -By William E. Smith...
...send a delegate to the conference; it was the first formal contact between the two countries since last spring, when Gemayel earned Assad's enmity by signing a troop withdrawal accord with Israel. On the other hand, the Progressive Socialist Party, led by Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, issued a fresh set of conditions for the talks, including a complete halt to cease-fire violations and a lifting of the nightly curfew in Beirut. Jumblatt himself hinted that the talks might break up over a dispute as picky as the seating. Before leaving for Switzerland, Jumblatt and his fellow leaders...
...national reconciliation. In addition to President Amin Gemayel, the dozen invitees include Camille Chamoun, head of the Christian Lebanese Front; Pierre Gemayel, the President's father and founder of the right-wing Christian Phalange; the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front (including Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt); Nabih Berri of the Amal Shi'ite militia; and former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a Sunni Muslim. Both Syria and Saudi Arabia will be allowed to send observers...
...final details were not settled, the cease-fire was to be enforced by a special security committee composed of members of the Lebanese Army, the Christian militias, the Shi'ite militia Amal, and the National Salvation Front, a new Syrian-backed opposition group headed by Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt, former Prime Minister Rashid Kararrti and former President Suleiman Franjieh. The committee would be assisted by foreign observers, from either France or Italy, as Gemayel prefers, or perhaps from Saudi Arabia or Yugoslavia, as some of the opposition groups advocate. After that, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd would issue an invitation...
...political force in modern Lebanon, the Druze were organized and galvanized by the magnetic Kamal Jumblatt, who was once described as "both rebel and statesman, mystic and politician." Three years after he joined parliament in 1946, Jumblatt formed the Progressive Socialist Party, and in the years that followed, he gave his committed support to the cause of Arab nationalism. By 1975 Jumblatt had founded the Lebanese National Movement and established himself as pre-eminent warlord of the Lebanese left. In the course of his political career, he ruled four ministries and helped to topple two Presidents. He also strongly opposed...