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Predictably, Lebanon's leftists were enraged. Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt called a one-day general strike in Beirut that kept people off the streets and closed the few shops that had not already been shuttered by the incessant street fighting. He also requested that other Arab states "interfere" in order to end the Syrian intervention. This was seconded by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which also managed to accuse Washington of being behind Assad's move...
...That conflict has reached the point where it is considered a quiet day in Beirut when only 30 people are killed. Among last week's victims: moderate Maronite Leader Raymond Edde, 63, who was wounded by gunmen chasing his car, and Linda Atrash, 55, sister of Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt, who was slain when assassins seeking relatives of Jumblatt burst into her apartment...
Shortly before the Parliament was to convene on Saturday morning, artillery and machine-gun fire reverberated throughout the capital of Beirut. House Speaker Kamal Asaad was forced to drive to the session guarded by a six-truck convoy of troops; other Deputies were escorted by gunmen from their own local militias. The Mediterranean villa that serves as a temporary Parliament itself came under heavy fire-though no one was hurt. Still, the fighting failed to deter a quorum of 69 out of 98 members of Parliament from convening. While mortars exploded all around, Sarkis, 51, who is governor of Lebanon...
Much as Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt and his National Movement wanted Franjieh out of the presidency, they feared Sarkis' election because of his reputed receptiveness to an increased Syrian military presence to restore order in Lebanon. After succeeding in getting the election postponed for one week, Jumblatt and his choice for President, Raymond Edde, 63, a Christian who had opposed Syrian intervention, kept up a running drumfire last week to delay the election until what they called Syrian "pressure" to secure Sarkis' election had ended. When they failed to halt the proceedings, both Edde and his supporters boycotted...
...Moslems and his own supporters, agreed to sign a constitutional amendment providing for the early election of a new head of state. To virtually all parties, Franjieh's replacement is an essential prerequisite to any political settlement. Indeed, before Franjieh ended his holdout last week, Moslem Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt had issued a grim ultimatum: he would form "a revolutionary government" and "liberate" Christian strongholds unless the President left office...