Word: karami
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli incursions and the fleeing farmers created a new crisis for Premier Rashid Karami's government in Beirut. Most of the refugees belong to the Moslem Shia sect, who hold the menial jobs in Lebanon and who have long received second-class treatment in domestic matters from Lebanon's Christians and the religiously dominant Sunni sect, to which Karami and most Moslems in his Cabinet belong. Now the peasants were angry at becoming pawns in war. Imam Mousa Sadr, religious leader of the Shia, called an effective one-day strike last week that even curtailed operations at Beirut...
...have no difficulty controlling the Arab guerrillas who have flocked to southern Lebanon from Syria and Jordan in order to harass Israelis across the border. But in putting down the fedayeen, the army would enrage the 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and probably bring down the government. Though Karami considered inviting troops from Tunisia and Morocco to help seal the border, the Cabinet decided instead to enforce a seven-month-old agreement under which the guerrillas are forbidden to carry arms in Lebanese villages or to fire into Israel from Lebanese territory. Even that decision was watered down...