Word: karami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Incapable of controlling the semifeudal political lords and their private militias who are responsible for the violence, Premier Rashid Karami faced increasing pressure to resign. He tentatively increased patrols by army troops in Beirut's downtown business sector and at all entrances to the city. Because most commanding officers in the 18,000-man army are Christian, Moslems fiercely oppose large-scale use of the military. Karami so far agrees and has warned that bringing in the army could destroy the country. But as the righting continued unabated, it seemed that the country was already approaching the edge...
...best hope for a solution lies with the 20-member "National Dialogue Committee" hastily put together by Premier Rashid Karami (TIME, Oct. 20). Yet because the committee is composed of representatives of most of Lebanon's rival religious and political factions, it is possible that-as the Phalangist daily al-Amal put it last week-"the Dialogue Committee's discussions may turn into 'a dialogue of the deaf...
...week's end, however, there was at least a faint ray of hope. A new truce -arranged by President Hafez Assad of Syria, Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat and Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami-seemed to be making some headway. In parts of Beirut, Christians and Moslems tore down barricades and gun emplacements and were aided by army bulldozers. But elsewhere in the capital, the combatants continued exchanging gunfire. The week's senseless violence had taken 100 lives, raising the death toll since April to more than 2,500, and had devastated even more of Beirut, turning...
...Beirut, fourth in the tragic sequence, rippled into other areas of Lebanon, principally Moslem Tripoli and the neighboring predominantly Christian town of Zgharta. The shooting began after a shaky and frequently violated two-week truce, during which it seemed for a time that the wobbly "rescue" government of Premier Karami might be able to contain the situation. With help from Syria, which does not want uncontrolled civil war on its doorstep, Karami had worked out a ceasefire between the heavily armed Christian and Moslem guerrillas. Karami hastily put together a "National Reconciliation Committee," whose 20 members represented most of Lebanon...
...mostly Moslem leftists and largely Christian rightists, no one seems to have a lasting solution to the bloodletting that has taken more than 2,000 lives so far and is steadily tearing apart what was always thought to be the Middle East's most tolerant and cosmopolitan country. Karami last week made a new attempt to pull his nation of 3 million people back together again by proposing a "Committee of National Reconciliation" comprising representatives of Lebanon's various religious and political groups. Syria, which is anxious to maintain a stable Lebanon as a buffer along Israel...