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...Lebanese military spokesman described the Damur air sortie as an attempt to help ground forces recover army vehicles seized in a Moslem-leftist ambush. Orders for the attack apparently came from the Lebanese army commander, Major General Hanna Saeed, a Maronite Christian. Premier Rashid Karami, a Moslem who is also Minister of Defense, tried to halt the strike when Saeed telephoned him that air action had been ordered. Karami's policy since the civil war has been to try to keep Lebanon's 18,000-member armed forces neutral. He has feared that because the officer corps...
Despite the fighting, Lebanon's Christian-Moslem Cabinet managed to hold its regular session at midweek, after which Premier Karami declared, "I'm getting all warring parties to accept a compromise settlement to bring the bitter fight to an end." The passions that divide Lebanon's factions have shattered a score of cease-fires so far, how ever, and the air force's entry into the fighting further weakens the already slim possibility of a lasting truce. Syria's armed forces chief of staff, Major Gen eral Hikmat Shehabi, arrived in Beirut just before...
Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami said the attacks "demonstrated Israel's perplexity after the victories scored by Syria and the P.L.O. at the U.N." P.L.O. Spokesman Abu Sharar also attributed the strikes to Israeli "desperation" over the Palestinians' diplomatic success. Criticism came from less predictable sources as well. Pope Paul VI, in a message of condolence cabled to the Lebanese government, called the raids "an inadmissible gesture of violence...
Private Militias. As the shooting flared up, so did the simmering political battle between leftists and rightists, Moslems and Christians within Karami's six-month-old "rescue government." An emergency meeting of the National Dialogue Committee broke up after 30 minutes because neither Maronite-Christian Interior Minister Camille Chamoun nor Druze Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt showed up. Both men control private militias, which were locked in street battle at the time of the meeting. Karami, infuriated by his Interior Minister's boycott of the meeting, complained that he was "incapable of returning the situation to normal because...
Political squabbling also subsided, and on Saturday Karami announced that Moslem and Christian government leaders had agreed to seek changes in the distribution of power within Lebanon. Under the existing political system, Lebanon's 40% Christian minority dominates both the military and the government. Karami said that his six-man Cabinet would be expanded to make it more representative of the country's varied ethnic makeup. No other specific reforms were promised, but the Premier did say that the constitution would be modified to redistribute the "national wealth among citizens" and that political changes would be introduced...