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While leaders of leftist groups were declaring their intentions several prominent campus organizations had less concrete plans for council participation Members of both the Harvard Conservative Club and the Harvard Republican Club said their groups had no similar plans to send members to the council...
...killed Gemayel? There was no shortage of suspects. He was hated by the leftist Muslim militias and by the Syrians. The P.L.O. had been his enemy for years. There was also a theory advanced by Arab leaders in Lebanon that Israel was behind the bombing because Gemayel was resisting pressure from the Begin government to sign a peace treaty. The U.S. dismissed such conjecture, pointing out that Israel's interests would best be served by having a strong neighbor on its northern border. But, as one U.S. analyst noted, "it says a great deal about current sentiment in Lebanon that...
...radio to avoid shooting at the embassy building "at all cost." Later, however, an Israeli officer took a shot at a U.S. Marine standing guard atop the embassy. The bullet missed, but by merely 2 ft. The Israelis later apologized, saying the officer thought the Marine was a leftist militiaman...
...answered. Knowing of the hatred and the capacity for vengeance of the various communities in Lebanon, what could have possessed the Israelis to allow the Christian forces to enter the refugee camps? Had they conspired with the militiamen to root out the last vestiges of the P.L.O. and Muslim leftist military opposition in West Beirut? Had their ranks been spread too thin to keep the executioners away from their victims? Or had they simply been careless about giving the bloodthirsty militiamen a chance to run amuck? Whatever the answer, the government of Menachem Begin had a lot of explaining...
...rising to Maronite leadership, Bashir had to fight not only Palestinians and leftist Muslims but also some of his fellow Maronites. In the tense atmosphere, a minor automobile mishap could touch off a firefight between Bashir's Phalangist warriors and the "tigers" of former President Camille Chamoun, often with bloody results. Gemayel's Phalangists were accused of murdering a son and granddaughter of former President Suleiman Franjieh (whose own followers, according to local belief, had once gunned down 17 members of a rival family in a church in northern Lebanon...