Word: rashid
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...rare demonstration of unity took place the next day when the city's largely Sunni Muslim population greeted Lebanon's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Rashid Karami. The two leaders wept as thousands shouted, "Long live Lebanon, long live Gemayel, long live the resistance!" During the demonstration Gemayel declared his support of "the honorable national resistance movement," an indication of his growing ties with Syria, whose government is trying to increase its political influence in Lebanon. Gemayel's remarks were ironic because his family had welcomed the Israeli forces into Lebanon in 1982 as a means...
...heavy guns. By relentlessly attacking oil tankers in the gulf, Iraq has sharply reduced Iran's petroleum exports, though it has not yet crippled them. Another Iraqi advantage is that its morale these days is at a wartime high. Boasts Major General Maher Abed al Rashid of the Iraqi Third Army: "Let Iran attack with 200,000 or half a million. None will return alive...
...Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rashid Karami, denounced the embassy bombing as "inexcusable and intolerable," adding, "We congratulate the survivors, and implore God's mercy for the victims." Otherwise, the reaction in the Arab world was somewhat muted, perhaps because many Arab moderates, including the Lebanese, were angry over the U.S. veto in early September of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for improved living conditions in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. Indeed, many Middle East experts speculated that the latest bombing was intended as retaliation for the veto...
Prime Minister Rashid Karami's hopes for extending the peace plan to other parts of Lebanon were further battered last week when two Israeli air force jets destroyed several buildings in the Bekaa Valley, killing or wounding at least 100. The structures were being used, an Israeli spokesman said, as a departure point for attacks by Palestinian guerrillas against Israeli soldiers...
...this year. Before a truce was called at week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them civilians. That brought the total number of deaths in the Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable to extend its authority to Tripoli, also saw its tenuous grip around the city of Beirut loosen somewhat. Ten people were wounded when fighting erupted once more between rival Christian and Druze militias in the hills overlooking the capital...