Word: karami
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kidnapings and killings. Though the fighting that the U.S. Marines had been sent in to discourage had presumably ended with the election of an above-the-battle general, Fuad Chehab, as President, it quickly broke out anew. Chehab's choice for Premier, a pro-Nasser rebel named Rashid Karami, had loaded his Cabinet with Nasserites. The precarious fifty-fifty balance of Christians and Moslems, which alone has kept Lebanon tranquil in the past, was broken again. This time it was the Christians who became the rebels...
...newsmen, in its ineffective days, as the "Third Farce"). One of Lebanon's most able and respected politicians, Edde ran unsuccessfully for the presidency against General Chehab. When trouble started again, he proposed a "save the nation" Cabinet of four leaders of the embattled factions. To offset Karami's Nasserism, he proposed as deputy premier a fellow Maronite Roman Catholic who wants no part of Arab nationalism. A moderate Moslem was picked as No. 3 man, and Edde himself...
...week's end tension eased, and the barricades first put up last May began to go down in Beirut streets. Premier Karami helped cool things off by announcing that "our chief responsibility is to bind up the wounds and wash the traces of blood from the face of Lebanon." At heart an Arab nationalist ("I consider Nasser a superman," he said recently), Karami is nevertheless on record as opposing merger with the United Arab Republic...
From the Barricades. But next day the announcement of the new Cabinet set off fresh protests from Christians and pro-Western Moslems. Chehab's choice for Premier was Rashid Karami, 37, a Moslem lawyer who led the rebel resistance in Tripoli. Chamoun's most fanatical backers vowed that they would fight rather than accept a Premier from "the barricades." From the mountain village to which he had retired, Chamoun fanned the flames with a statement: "The new Cabinet is not satisfactory to me." Members of the khaki-shirted Christian Phalange, a strong-arm outfit that has been...
Hopeful Leaning. Inside Lebanon, fighting sputtered on with just a hint that the rebels might be beginning to flag. At Tripoli, rebels led by ex-Premier Rashid Karami attacked by night to improve their supply lines toward the Syrian border, only to provoke such a heavy mortar barrage that their forces suffered an estimated 150 casualties. White flags suddenly appeared all over Tripoli's Moslem quarter and rebels in the port area negotiated a truce that represented a distinct advance for Chamoun's authority...