Word: karami
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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From the Barricades. But next day the announcement of the new Cabinet set off fresh protests from Christians and pro-Western Moslems. Chehab's choice for Premier was Rashid Karami, 37, a Moslem lawyer who led the rebel resistance in Tripoli. Chamoun's most fanatical backers vowed that they would fight rather than accept a Premier from "the barricades." From the mountain village to which he had retired, Chamoun fanned the flames with a statement: "The new Cabinet is not satisfactory to me." Members of the khaki-shirted Christian Phalange, a strong-arm outfit that has been...
Hopeful Leaning. Inside Lebanon, fighting sputtered on with just a hint that the rebels might be beginning to flag. At Tripoli, rebels led by ex-Premier Rashid Karami attacked by night to improve their supply lines toward the Syrian border, only to provoke such a heavy mortar barrage that their forces suffered an estimated 150 casualties. White flags suddenly appeared all over Tripoli's Moslem quarter and rebels in the port area negotiated a truce that represented a distinct advance for Chamoun's authority...