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...Assembly voted no confidence in Soares' moderate leftist policies. The Premier survived, but only because the conservative-leaning Center Democratic Party (C.D.S.) agreed to form a governing coalition with the Socialists, who held 102 seats in the 263-member assembly. Last month the three C.D.S. Cabinet ministers threatened to resign unless Soares got rid of Agriculture Minister Luis Saias, a former Communist who the Centrists maintained was dragging his feet in restoring to its original owners lands seized by peasants during the turbulent 1974 revolution. The C.D.S. ministers also wanted sweeping modifications in a proposed national program of socialized medicine...
...writes a prescription for trouble and has to resign...
...Beirut, "it will hold for only a few weeks or a month. The state will fall back into conditions that produce more fighting. The guns talk here. Nothing else." President Elias Sarkis, who has been frustrated over his inability to prevent the fratricidal fighting, for a while threatened to resign. But he bowed to U.S. pressure to stay on in order to stave off what would almost certainly be, in his absence, total anarchy in the troubled land...
With events rapidly careening out of control, President Sarkis, a Christian, announced that he could no longer exert the authority bestowed on him by the constitution and would resign. The announcement shocked Lebanon; the squabbling Christian leaders, as well as many Muslim spokesmen, urged Sarkis to reconsider...
That was too much for Desai. He called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet and threatened to resign unless given a free hand. In the end, he was authorized to write letters to Narain and Singh, asking for their resignations. Both complied, followed by four junior ministers who quit in support of the two dissidents...