Word: karami
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...week's end the chances for Gemayel's survival improved slightly. After meeting in Damascus for two days, the leaders of the National Salvation Front, including Jumblatt, former President Suleiman Franjieh and former Prime Minister Rashid Karami, listed their demands. The trio asked for a hand in rebuilding the Lebanese Army and rescinding legislative decrees that they contended favor the Christians; as expected, the group also insisted on scrapping the May 17 Israeli-Lebanese accord. Significantly, the front did not call for Gemayel's resignation. His aides greeted the declaration with guarded optimism. According to a Gemayel...
...stopped short of publicly asking the P.L.O. chieftain to leave the city. The Gulf Cooperation Council, made up of Saudi Arabia and five other Persian Gulf states, dispatched a delegation to Damascus. A four-day cease-fire was worked out, promptly broke down, then was patched together again. Rashid Karami, a former Lebanese Prime Minister who lives in Tripoli, asked Arafat to quit the area and "leave with all his brothers." The P.L.O. leader flatly rejected the appeal amid reports that the rebels had made their final demand: surrender now and leave Lebanon, or face an all-out assault when...
...could. The front's three leaders represent the major religious opponents of Gemayel's Christian Phalange. As leader of the Druze, an esoteric, secretive religious sect that emerged in the 11th century as an offshoot of Islam, Walid Jumblatt, 34, speaks for about 250,000 Lebanese. Rashid Karami, 62, who served as Prime Minister during the 1960s and still retains a power base in Tripoli, is a Sunni Muslim, as are a million Lebanese. Though Suleiman Franjieh, 73, who served as President from 1970 to 1976, is a Maronite Christian like Gemayel, he has waged a long...
...Lebanon, ordinarily a 90-min. flight but now, with Beirut's airport closed, a grueling, scrambling 2-1/2 day ordeal. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, returning to Beirut from an overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley." Two days later, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, with the Beirut airport still shut down...