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...publicity brochures, Beirut's 26-floor Holiday Inn last week was more a nightmare than a dream come true. The only visitors lingering in the shell-pocked, fire-scorched tower beside the Mediterranean were alternating bands of Christian militiamen trying to hold their hotel stronghold and Moslem fighters intent on blasting them out with rockets and tanks. The Christian Phalangists lost the hotel, won it back briefly, then lost it for good as Moslem riflemen stormed into the shattered lobby, fought their way up from floor to floor and savagely tossed the body of a Phalangist sniper...
...Syrian-arranged peace had failed to remove some of the basic causes of the civil war because of political feuding among Lebanon's many sectarian factions. The truce had promised reforms that would give the predominant Moslems a larger share of political power and economic programs to develop impoverished Moslem areas. Since January there has been virtually no progress toward these goals, despite intense mediation efforts by Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, principal architect of the truce. Though Khaddam wields enormous influence in Lebanon, based largely on the presence there of close to 9,000 Syrian-trained soldiers...
Khaddam flew to Beirut early last week, but left after a few days, having failed to come up with a plan upon which Lebanon's political and religious factions could agree. At the same time, mutinous Moslem soldiers rejected an offer of amnesty by a number of senior army officers, including General Saeed. Instead, the Moslem deserters captured several more outposts...
...television broadcast: "For God's sake, we have been patient for ten months, and if we had waited one more day, there would have been uncontrollable bloodshed." The choice of Ahdab as the military's front man was apparently carefully calculated by a group of Christian and Moslem officers to give the coup a nonreligious character. He is the highest-ranking Sunni Moslem in the armed forces but is also respected by Christian officers...
...condemned men are all in mufti," a Lagos radio correspondent announced crisply, giving a running account of the executions on Bar Beach. "Most of them look sober. Some manage to smile at newsmen." Religious confessions, Christian and Moslem, were received by two priests and a mallam (a Moslem religious leader). While the throng looked on, the 15-man firing squad opened up. The shooting lasted ten minutes, as one by one the coup plotters slumped to the blood-soaked sand...