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...week of abnormal tension and turmoil. The carefully engineered truce imposed on that divided nation by Syria had collapsed (see below). Bitter fighting continued between hard-pressed Christian rightists and forces of the National Movement, an amalgam of Moslem leftists and Palestinians led by a gaunt, shambling politician-mystic, Kamal Jumblatt (see page 34), who vowed to fight on until Lebanon's antiquated sectarian political system was reformed...
...rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were killed and at least 6,000 were left homeless. Survivors claimed that there had been a massacre and countless atrocities. "We shall skin them for this," vowed Kamal Jumblatt, head of the leftist Progressive Socialist Party and leader of the country's Druze community...
...Mediterranean, the town of Damur lies twelve miles south of Beirut along the coastal highway. Damur is in a mountainous region of Lebanon known as the Chouf. The area is home to two of Lebanon's best-known political leaders, Maronite Christian Camille Chamoun and Druze Kamal Jumblatt. Last week, in retaliation for a rightist Christian attack on a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, leftist and Druze militiamen, led by fedayeen officers, laid siege to Damur, an important road junction and rightist stronghold. For five days it was shelled by mortars and rockets. TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager...
...flared up, so did the simmering political battle between leftists and rightists, Moslems and Christians within Karami's six-month-old "rescue government." An emergency meeting of the National Dialogue Committee broke up after 30 minutes because neither Maronite-Christian Interior Minister Camille Chamoun nor Druze Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt showed up. Both men control private militias, which were locked in street battle at the time of the meeting. Karami, infuriated by his Interior Minister's boycott of the meeting, complained that he was "incapable of returning the situation to normal because the guardian of the premises...
...government-in-exile during the Pakistani civil war, he may not have been loyal to Mujib. There were allegations after independence that he had participated in U.S.-initiated attempts to prevent the breakaway of Bangladesh. Mujib piqued Khandakar by relieving him of the foreign ministry, appointing Dr. Kamal Hossain, who was in Belgrade when the coup occurred...