Word: michell
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Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded...
Credit for the smoother performance goes to Foley and Minority Leader Robert Michel. Last winter Foley watched former Speaker Jim Wright fumble painfully as he tried to sneak a raise through the House without a vote. Wright's clumsiness on the issue helped push him from power in May. Foley took office promising his rank and file he would bring the pay raise to the House floor again this year. But he was determined to do things differently...
Foley and Michel began by appointing a bipartisan task force to craft an ethics package that would combine the salary increase with real reform. With the raise stalled as a hoped-for Thanksgiving adjournment approached, Foley and Michel closed ranks again. They limited partisan bickering and promised not to use the pay hike as a campaign issue next year. On Thursday they won a hasty 252-174 vote in favor of the increase. After the victory, task force chairman Vic Fazio of California declared, "We have decided to reinvest in this institution and take the responsibility for its future...
Moawad is opposed by General Michel Aoun, commander of the fanatically loyal Christian army in East Beirut. Aoun is enraged that, as part of the peace plan, Moawad is willing to diminish Christian political power and let 40,000 Syrian troops continue to occupy large parts of Lebanon...
...General Michel Aoun, the Lebanese Christian leader, rejected the agreement promptly because it provides no timetable for the withdrawal of occupying Syrian forces. Also opposed were militia commanders of Lebanon's large Shi'ite Muslim community, who want to abolish rather than readjust sectarian quotas. Yet the latest eight-month round of fighting has wearied most of the beleaguered country, and there were some signs that both Aoun and Shi'ite leaders would eventually be persuaded to fall into line...