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...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...
Like a cancer checked in one organ only to flare up in another, factional fighting erupted again in Lebanon last week. Premier Rashid Karami's reluctant decision to order army units into the northern sector of the country (TIME, Sept. 22) finally halted the violence around Tripoli. But Lebanon's second largest city had hardly quieted down when street warfare broke out in Beirut for the fourth time since last April. More than 100 people were killed in several days of shooting and bombing in the capital before a tenuous truce was negotiated at week...
...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...
Christian Officers. The latest fighting had particularly ominous political overtones. Tripoli is the home town and political base of Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni Moslem. Since midsummer, Karami has headed a "rescue government" whose first priority is to end the religious strife that has paralyzed the nation. Zgharta is the home village of Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh, a Maronite Christian and longtime political foe of Karami's. Indeed, the gunman alleged to have executed the Moslem bus riders is a distant relative of the President's.* Thus forces loyal to Lebanon's two highest officials were locked...
Meeting in emergency session with their six-man rescue Cabinet, Franjieh and Karami grappled with the question of whether to send in Lebanon's 18,000-man armed forces to end the fighting. Some political leaders were reluctant to do so, since the officer corps is dominated by Maronite Christians. Moreover, the army commander, Major General Iskandar Ghanem, an old friend of Franjieh's, had antagonized Moslems by ordering the army two years ago to attack militant Palestinians in Lebanon, and by his inability to protect the country from Israeli attacks (another one took place last week, aimed...