Word: kamal
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...unable to bear." Lebanese lawmakers approved an increase in the army's authorized strength, from 15,000 to 25,000 men. The action was important only in a symbolic sense, for the army's present strength is now 11,000. As Interior Minister Kamal Jumblatt admitted dolefully: "There simply are no volunteers these days...
...freshman class yesterday elected William Kamal Dabaghi, of Weld Hall and Huntsville, Texas; Harold E. Krents, of Wigglesworth Hall and Scaisdale, N.Y.; and W. Walker Lewis, of Hollis Hall and Lebanon, Ohio, to one-year terms on the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs...
...Kamal Hossain, barrister at law and lecturer in international law at the University of Dacca, continued to talk about the problems presented by the cold war and the extent to which they have slowed economic advance...
...eject two scions of old feudal clans from their traditional seats. Ex-President Chamoun, who accused his successors of rigging this election to bar him from a comeback, squeaked through to win a Maronite Christian seat. Also elected was a kingpin in the 1958 revolt that toppled Chamoun, moody Kamal Jumblatt. Another leader of that revolt, ex-Premier Saeb Salam, was confidently expected to be a victor...
...last year's civil war, Moghabghab, a Christian (Greek Catholic), sided with Christian (Maronite) President Camille Chamoun. In the mountainous Chouf area near his home, he led a private army of his own against the forces of Kamal Jumblatt, chieftain of the Druses, craggy mountaineers who practice the secret rites of an Islamic heresy. When Jumblatt's army overran his village, Moghabghab burned his own home to the ground rather than let it fall to the enemy...