Word: militiaization
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That may prove to be a hard promise to keep. Until now, the Maronite Christians have remained more or less united behind President Gemayel. Last week, however, Gemayel's Phalange Party was suddenly challenged by a senior officer in the Lebanese Forces, which are dominated by the Phalangist militia. Both the party and the militia were founded by the late Sheik Pierre Gemayel, and the Lebanese Forces were formerly led by the late Bashir Gemayel, the son of Pierre and brother of Amin. The challenger was one of the Lebanese Forces commanders, Samir Geagea, 32, who seemed bent not only...
Though the first withdrawal phase has been completed, the Israelis are still occupying the heartland of Shi'ite resistance, dozens of hill villages to the northeast of Tyre. So far, two senior Israeli officers and a sergeant have been killed behind the new lines. A pro-Israeli militia, the South Lebanon Army, once estimated to number over 2,000, has lost a third of its members through defections in recent months, and could disintegrate completely once the Israelis have pulled back behind their border. Israel has faced a dismal choice: to stay on in Lebanon, sustaining more casualties and serving...
Soon enough, the front began to disintegrate. Charges were made of unfair distribution of arms which short changed anarchist militia units. The Trotskyites and other groups opposed the conservative economic policies of the regime, and small military clashes were reported. As Stalin's purges got underway in the USSR, the Spanish government began to harass, threaten and even assassinate members of the left revolutionary groups...
...infringement on its sovereignty, of two Israeli proposals. One is to expand the role of the 5,252-man United Nations peace-keeping force stationed in southern Lebanon in the wake of an Israeli withdrawal, the other to allot some security duties to an Israeli-backed Lebanese militia in the immediate border region. As U.N. Under Secretary-General Brian Urquhart tried last week to get the negotiations back on track, a scheduled meeting at Naqoura was postponed briefly "for technical reasons...
...Israeli troops leave Lebanese soil altogether. As part of the third phase, the Israelis plan to create a zone six to twelve miles deep on the Lebanese side of the frontier under the control of the 2,150-man Israeli-trained and -financed South Lebanon Army, a predominantly Christian militia...