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...Aziz Ahdab, commander of the Beirut military region. In cool, measured tones, he proclaimed a state of emergency and declared that he had just taken control of the country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours, "for the sake of national unity." Ahdab insisted that he had "no desire to rule" and called upon Parliament to select a new President within seven days...
Last week Lebanon's Cabinet met-for the first time in 15 days-under Premier Rashid Karami, who had withdrawn his resignation. Civil servants were ordered back to their offices and schools and banks prepared to reopen. Although most Lebanese began breathing easier for the first time in weeks, there were fears that the truce was a fragile one and could again dissolve into fighting. "The country is in de facto partition," warned one Cabinet minister...
...more than 9,000. "A state of total anarchy," was the way a horrified Beirut television announcer described the killings, kidnapings, looting, arson and destruction. The disastrous round of fighting triggered two abortive cease-fire efforts in 24 hours, as well as the proffered resignation-not accepted-of Premier Rashid Karami, a moderate Sunni Moslem, who had been frustrated in his seven-month effort to make peace...
...Lebanese military spokesman described the Damur air sortie as an attempt to help ground forces recover army vehicles seized in a Moslem-leftist ambush. Orders for the attack apparently came from the Lebanese army commander, Major General Hanna Saeed, a Maronite Christian. Premier Rashid Karami, a Moslem who is also Minister of Defense, tried to halt the strike when Saeed telephoned him that air action had been ordered. Karami's policy since the civil war has been to try to keep Lebanon's 18,000-member armed forces neutral. He has feared that because the officer corps...
Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami said the attacks "demonstrated Israel's perplexity after the victories scored by Syria and the P.L.O. at the U.N." P.L.O. Spokesman Abu Sharar also attributed the strikes to Israeli "desperation" over the Palestinians' diplomatic success. Criticism came from less predictable sources as well. Pope Paul VI, in a message of condolence cabled to the Lebanese government, called the raids "an inadmissible gesture of violence...