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...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...
...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...
...events produced internal and external crises for Lebanon. Karami resigned as caretaker Premier. Arab leaders called a general strike, and some of the 160,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon fought pitched battles with police in Beirut. In Tripoli, Lebanon's second city, street battles killed seven and injured scores. Helou was forced to declare a nationwide curfew to prevent further disorders...