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...army chief of staff during Lebanon's 1958 rebellion. General Fuad Chehab, 58, earned the nickname "Hamlet" from U.S. officials for his indecisive refusal to attack the rebel barricades in Beirut. But in the impassioned Middle East, refusal to act can sometimes be more impressive than action itself. Chehab avoided bloodshed, and Lebanon admired that more than any other of his accomplishments. Both Moslem and Christian rallied behind this champion of compromise, elected him to the presidency for six years as the little country's best hope for peace and unity...
Last week change threatened Lebanon's long political truce. Saeb Salam, a leader in the 1958 rebellion, had won a comeback victory in last month's parliamentary elections, was demanding appointment as Premier. All seemed settled when the lame-duck Cabinet members presented themselves at the palace to resign. President Chehab had a surprise for them. He announced his own resignation, effective immediately. "I have done my duty; my conscience is clear," he declared, and talked of a long vacation on the Riviera...
...discover whether the people favor Mao Tse-tung's rule means observing the ways by which the government maintains its power. Recent use of military power to suppress rebellion shows, said Lindsay, that the Communist Party lacks mass support. From his point of view, "Knowledge of the situation is easy; but to know what to do is hard...
...weekend, drew 750 people on Sunday night, grossed $4,700. With the encouragement of Louis Lorillard's divorced wife Elaine, they made plans to form their own Jazz Artists' Guild, and to sell tapes of their concerts, which eventually may appear on four LPs under the title Rebellion at Newport. The cool rebels, including such top modern jazzmen as Roy Eldridge, Jo Jones, Ornette Coleman and Coleman Hawkins, hope to appear at Manhattan's Village Gate, tour the country next winter, return in triumph to Newport next year...
...Castro's attacks, it bears in mind the fact that although almost every Latin American government is fed up with Castro, many among the peasant masses in these countries still have a misty, remote view of Castro as a savior of their kind, and as a symbol of rebellion against their miserable lot. A government that voted to condemn Castro in the OAS would risk popular wrath at home. Such being the case, the U.S. decided to present a formal list of Castro's excesses for the record, to justify the new U.S. policy of economic action against...