Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still while Israel sorts out the consequences of its election. The Lebanese government withdrew its guards at the Israeli liaison office in a Beirut suburb last week, as a means of forcing Jerusalem to close the building and bring home the 30 officials who worked there. Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami had been pressing Israel for months to shut the office, but Shamir had refused to abandon what amounted to the last shred of the May 17, 1983, withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor Begin...
...traffic will be one of the results of a security plan designed to pave the way for power-sharing talks among Lebanon's clashing factions. The actions not only marked the first success for Prime Minister Rashid Karami's two-month-old government, but reflected the crucial mediation role played by Syria. Nonetheless, a decade of civil war has left the Lebanese understandably skeptical about the chances for lasting peace. As a headline in Beirut's Daily Star newspaper put it, ROSE WATER, RICE AND RESERVATIONS...
...seem almost interchangeable. Last Monday, rockets and artillery fire began raining down upon both Christian and Muslim residential areas, leaving at least 100 people dead. One day later, representatives of both groups gave a vote of confidence in parliament for the six-week-old government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami...
...have three months to lay down the foundations of a new Lebanon. We should not let this opportunity go." So said Lebanon's Prime Minister, Rashid Karami, last week, while gunfire and explosions in the streets of Beirut added emphasis to his message. In the three weeks since President Amin Gemayel appointed Karami's "last-chance government," as it has been dubbed, at least 50 civilians have been killed in the Lebanese capital and hundreds have been wounded. During that period the ten-member Cabinet, evenly divided between Christians and Muslims, has remained at loggerheads over the same...
Meanwhile, a tug of war was developing over Lebanon's new Cabinet. Rashid Karami, 62, had been appointed Prime Minister two weeks ago and asked to form his tenth Cabinet since 1955. It was hoped that Karami, a pro-Syrian Sunni Muslim, would find that a new 26-member Cabinet would be large enough to accommodate all of Lebanon's myriad sectarian interests and make a political reality of the dramatic realignment in the country's balance of military power brought about when Shi'ite militiamen seized control of West Beirut in February...