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...fragile seven-week-old Pax Syriana-the Damascus-sponsored truce of Jan. 22. The authorities, charged Ahdab, had simply been unable to maintain order or begin to build a consensus in the divided country. This threatened to push Lebanon into renewed war between right-wing Christians and Moslem leftists. All last week gunmen again began erecting street barricades and kidnaping scores of civilians...
Self-Styled Army. The most alarming development was mutiny within Lebanon's 18,000-man army, which long was almost the sole national institution to remain generally above the confessional conflict. Now it is being split into antagonistic Moslem and Christian factions. Hundreds of Moslem soldiers deserted and took over army garrisons. Among them was Beaufort Castle-a massive stone fortress built 900 years ago by French Crusaders -which is within artillery range of settlements inside Israel. Many of the deserting Moslem troops were believed to be sympathetic to the Palestinian guerrillas, and there were fears last week that...
Mutiny also spread among Christian soldiers. Many had been angered when Moslem deserters in northern Lebanon earlier this month besieged the Christian town of Qobayat. Some Christian troops commandeered helicopters and rushed to help relieve the town, further infuriating the Moslems. The Christian soldiers were also incensed by the growth of the self-styled Lebanese Arab Army, composed primarily of Moslem deserters and led by Lieutenant Ahmad Khatib, 33, who had served in the regular army for eleven years before deserting in January. Originally, his army numbered about 70 men and was confined to a lone command post...
Khatib's basic appeal to Moslem soldiers is his charge-in part justified-that the Lebanese army is biased in favor of Christians. Only about 40% of the officers are Moslems, while they make up a disproportionately large share of the rank and file. Khatib wants the Lebanese constitution specifically to acknowledge the Arab character of the state; he also wants a reorganization of the army on a nonconfessional basis. Preoccupied with trying to maintain the cease-fire and stalemated by political bickering, the government paid little attention to Khatib and his growing band of rebels, even though...
...kinds totaled about $6 billion. But almost two-thirds of the direct OPEC contributions in 1974 and 1975 went to Egypt and Syria (both net exporters of oil), for obvious political reasons. Indeed, less than 10% of the direct assistance granted by OPEC members goes to non-Moslem countries, and 18 of the 42 countries designated by the U.N. as "most seriously affected" by high oil prices have received no aid at all from OPEC members...