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...Palestinians seemed a shaky solution, but the limited cease-fire remained intact at week's end. It did not, however, bring any real peace to Lebanon because the agreement, negotiated by Libyan Premier Abdul Salam Jalloud, did not extend to the country's warring leftist Moslem and rightist Christian forces. On the day the Jalloud agreement was announced last week, rightist forces launched a savage attack on two Palestinian camps in the predominantly Christian eastern section of Beirut. More than 150 were killed and well over 200 wounded in one of the bloodiest weeks of Lebanon...
Cease-Fire. In many ways, however, Syrian President Hafez Assad's decision to force a solution in Lebanon gave the conflict a potentially more dangerous dimension than it had had during the 14 months of fighting between Lebanese leftists, who are allied with the Palestinians, and Christian rightists. The Syrian incursion openly brought several Arab regimes into an arena in which they had all along been playing covert and opposing roles. There was thus the danger that Lebanon would remain a theater of quarrels between the moderate and radical Arab states now directly intervening in the country. The rightist...
Brazil charged that Cuba had found a new base from which to propagate Communism. Venezuela, because of a longstanding territorial claim to more than half the country, had more specific reasons to challenge Guyana. * The rightist newsweekly Venezuelan Resumen claimed the existence of three Communist military camps in Guyana, harboring more than 18,000 Cuban and -astonishingly-Chinese troops, all training revolutionaries...
Respected Technocrat. Like Franjieh, who had supported his election, Sarkis is from the Maronite Christian community, which has dominated Lebanon's government and economy since the country became independent at the end of World War II. A respected technocrat who has been described as a "rightist with socialist ideas," he is credited, as head of the Central Bank, with restoring confidence in the country's banking system after the Intra Bank crash of 1966. A candidate in the last presidential election in 1970, Sarkis lost to Franjieh by only one vote...
...this way the Socialists have sought moderate and conservative votes--and despite their drop over last year's election, the parliamentary voting saw them remain the largest single political force in the nation, with 35 per cent. But the result of this electoral policy is to legitimate the rightist attack on socialism, which is put in terms of supporting a "free" alternative to Stalinist domination. Caught between moves toward socialism and reaction, between a left and a right which imply coherent but opposite courses for the future, the Socialists can gain votes but never rule alone. Soares' party must cease...