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...Invasion. All that seemed threatened last week in the wake of the Beirut raid. The already shaky government of Premier Abdullah Yafi toppled amid a crossfire of recriminations over the Beirut airport's lack of defenses. In the Premier's palace, President Charles Helou called in Rashid Karami, 47, who first won an international name as leader of a brief, Nasser-supported rebellion that brought U.S. Marines rushing to Lebanon in 1958. Karami has since served as Premier five times, the last time during the Six-Day War, when he ordered Lebanon's army into battle against...
Last week, Karami was trying to pull together a Cabinet from among Lebanon's fractious political parties, and shape a new policy toward Israel. Amid fears of an Israeli invasion of Lebanon's mountainous south, Lebanese debated whether to risk disaster at the hands of the Israelis, or to break all tradition, ally themselves with the Arab cause, and raise a powerful army-which could equally mean disaster...
...long-blocked road to Intra's resurrection finally opened after British auditors found that the bank, though short of cash, was so loaded with gilt-edged investments ($217 million worth) as to be a sound long-term venture. A new Cabinet under Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami fired a committee that was irreconcilably split over whether to salvage or liquidate the bank, named another that dickered with Kid der, Peabody. The key to the rescue deal was winning the consent of Intra's major creditors, notably that of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber al Ahmed as Sabah, whose countrymen...
...successful emigrant had freighted his American car (a mid-50s model) back to Lebanon to impress his home villagers. He had a rude awakening. "They've all got 1959 models!" he complained. Premier Rashid Karami, Maronite Patriarch Paul Meouchi (once of Los Angeles), and even usually aloof President Fuad Chehab posed smilingly for pictures with the visitors. Most of the expatriates seemed glad to see the old country, but would they like to stay? "Of course I'm going back," snapped one conventioner. "I just came here to dream...
...recent incidents: a religious murder in Sidon. a lynching in Tripoli. "The time has come for the erection of gallows,'' said Interior Minister Raymond Edde, introducing a bill making capital punishment mandatory for "premeditated murder.'' Last week, made an issue of confidence by Premier Rashid Karami, the bill was passed, 28-3. No longer may a murderer plead as a mitigating circumstance the defense honored in Lebanon for centuries: a blood feud...