Word: karami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestine Liberation Organization, led by relatively moderate Yasser Arafat), Lebanese leftists, and the fiercely nationalistic Phalangists, who deeply resent the fact that armed fedayeen form a kind of state within a state in Lebanon. The bitterness has been compounded by the political difficulties of Premier-Designate Rashid Karami, an eight-time Prime Minister (TIME, June 9), who after four frustrating weeks is still trying to put together a Cabinet that will be acceptable to Lebanon's principal political factions. The problem is that the Phalangists' leader, Sheik Pierre Gemayel, insists that his party be represented. Socialist Leader Kamal...
...first military government, Beirut crackled with small-arms fire as Lebanese Christians celebrated. Last week the military government bowed out after three days, and again the city popped with gunfire. This time it came from Beirut's Moslem neighborhoods, rejoicing that Franjieh had asked former Premier Rashid Karami to head a civilian government. The change in leadership was precipitated by the latest in a series of clashes between the country's Moslem majority (about 60%) and Christian minority that have troubled Lebanon (pop. 3.2 million) throughout its 32 years as a nation...
First Mission. Rifai quickly resigned. Franjieh knew that the Moslems favored Karami, who had served as Premier in eight governments since 1955. But he happens to loathe Karami. The President approached two other ex-premiers for the job; both refused because of the extent of Karami's support. Shrugging, Franjieh accepted the inevitable...
...Karami, son of a founding father of Lebanon, quickly reassured the Moslem population that "we will always cooperate with our brothers, the Palestinians." But he is also respected by most Christians, including the Phalangists...
...government's first mission, Karami said, would be to "reestablish law, order, tranquillity, and thus self-confidence." The combatants, exhausted after eleven days of fighting that had taken at least 120 more lives, began to disperse their private armies. But at week's end a Palestinian youth was shot down by a street gang, and suddenly the city was again a battleground. South of Beirut, a Christian village and a Moslem village exchanged rocket and mortar fire; a merchant in the Christian community was killed. It is thus clear that Karami's first mission-re-establishing order...