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...roundup began only one day after Gemayel had reappointed Chafik al Wazzan, 57, a soft-spoken Muslim lawyer, as Prime Minister. In accordance with an unwritten 1943 accord, the President is always a Maronite Christian and the Prime Minister is a Sunni Muslim. Even so, Wazzan's appointment was a reassuring sign to Lebanon's Muslims, including the Palestinians, who are wary of Christian rule. During the siege of Beirut, Wazzan earned the admiration of his fellow Muslims for his defiance of the Israelis...
Casual acts of murder were still taking place as the roundup progressed. One man, who had hid in a partly bombed building, later related how he had peered through a small shrapnel hole while militiamen barged into a small shop across the street. The gunmen cut the throat of the proprietor, who was hiding inside, and then guzzled a bottle of whisky. At Gaza Hospital the staff of 22 doctors and nurses, mostly Europeans, were rounded up and marched away. As the medics passed a group of lounging militiamen, a Palestinian male nurse was pulled out of the group, taken...
...Alien Roundup...
TIME was inaccurate in saying that Nicaraguan troops violated the Honduran border, but stands by its report that Nicaraguan soldiers fired on and killed Miskito Indians who were trying to avoid a roundup by crossing the river to reach Honduras...
...stated purpose of the roundup was to test the effectiveness of the martial law rule, imposed on Dec. 13 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The result, admitted the national press agency PAP, was "not as good as it might be." More direct was the U.S. State Department, which branded Operation Calm "a mockery of all recent Polish government statements to the effect that life is beginning to return to normal in Poland...