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...Ahdab, commander of the Beirut military region. In cool, measured tones, he proclaimed a state of emergency and declared that he had just taken control of the country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours, "for the sake of national unity." Ahdab insisted that he had "no desire to rule" and called upon Parliament to select a new President within seven days...
...Franjieh's conditions was met when two-thirds of the 99-member Parliament agreed to ask him to step down. Still, Franjieh defiantly refused, although widespread anarchy and dangerously rising tensions increased military and political pressures on him to vacate the presidency. Meanwhile, nothing had been heard from Karami, who, ironically, had threatened to resign just before Ahdab had demanded his resignation...
Last week Lebanon's Cabinet met-for the first time in 15 days-under Premier Rashid Karami, who had withdrawn his resignation. Civil servants were ordered back to their offices and schools and banks prepared to reopen. Although most Lebanese began breathing easier for the first time in weeks, there were fears that the truce was a fragile one and could again dissolve into fighting. "The country is in de facto partition," warned one Cabinet minister...
...than 9,000. "A state of total anarchy," was the way a horrified Beirut television announcer described the killings, kidnapings, looting, arson and destruction. The disastrous round of fighting triggered two abortive cease-fire efforts in 24 hours, as well as the proffered resignation-not accepted-of Premier Rashid Karami, a moderate Sunni Moslem, who had been frustrated in his seven-month effort to make peace...
Several previous truce agreements, although usually negotiated in good faith by leaders of the warring factions, collapsed because they were unable to control the loosely organized and undisciplined militia nominally under their command. After the mid-January ceasefire negotiated by Karami (TIME, Jan. 26), for example, rightist forces in the capital, composed mostly of Phalangists, the "Tigers" of the National Liberal Party and neighborhood militiamen, attacked two Moslem slum areas, Karantina and Maslakh. Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were...