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...usual, the army did not follow up its advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
...Kamal Jumblatt, 39, a hereditary chief of Druse mountain tribesmen and ex-Cabinet minister, formed his own socialist party in 1949, later backed the movement that installed Chamoun in office. A somewhat intellectual and moody mountaineer who studied in Paris and took to visiting an Indian ashram after his first parting with Chamoun, he now controls the south central area of Lebanon for the opposition. Chamoun's ultimate insult, he claims, was to deny him his ancestral parliamentary seat in last year's elections. As leader of a heretical Moslem sect, he is no friend to Islamic...
...this point of deadlock. TIME Correspondent Denis Fodor taxied up into the mountains to call on Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt, 39, hereditary chieftain of the Druses, the fiercely dissident Moslem sect who farm and feud along Lebanon's eastern border. Reported Fodor...
...Jumblatt controls 20 villages and an army of about 2,000 wool-capped tribesmen who carry grenades slung from belts and watch fobs, and shoulder Italian submachine guns as casually as hoes. Tall, thin, hawk-nosed, and dressed in slightly rumpled grey suit, Jumblatt himself is a somewhat intellectual mountaineer who studied in Paris, served as a Socialist Deputy and minister in Beirut, took up Gandhian philosophy after a visit to India in 1951, and last year walked out in disgust from Nasser's Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo on realizing that it was Communist...
...made a halfhearted effort to arrest Saeb Salam, his private army of 100 bullyboys drove cops back from his sandbagged mansion. Near the Syrian border, where avengers knifed to death the five customs guards who seized De San's guns, a Chamoun-hating Druse tribal leader named Kamal Jumblatt took to the field with an army of 2,000. Cried Beirut's Al-Masa (it was a comment on Lebanese freedom that opposition newspapers appeared uncensored all week): "0 Chamoun, resign! O Shehab, take over...