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News of the assassination spread quickly. Lebanon's President, Amin Gemayel, expressed his condolences to U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew. Former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a leader in the effort to unite the country's warring factions, called the murder "a flagrant disregard for values and an illustration of how seriously security has deteriorated." Particularly vulnerable at the moment are individual Americans and Frenchmen, partly because the terrorists are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate the military bases and thus are turning their guns on relatively unprotected civilian targets. Two weeks ago gunmen on a motorbike shot and slightly...
...wake of the gulf attacks, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam warned, "The growth of Islamic fundamentalism is an earthquake. It is becoming more radical, making alliances with those who support Communist ideology." He and other Arab moderates felt the situation had been exacerbated, however, by the growing U.S. military involvement in the region and the U.S. decision, announced during Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's visit to Washington last month, to adopt a new policy of "strategic cooperation" with Israel so as to check the growing strength of Soviet-armed Syria...
...Chamoun, head of the Christian Lebanese Front; Pierre Gemayel, the President's father and founder of the right-wing Christian Phalange; the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front (including Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt); Nabih Berri of the Amal Shi'ite militia; and former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a Sunni Muslim. Both Syria and Saudi Arabia will be allowed to send observers...
...sent the 3,960-man peace-keeping force to Lebanon, warned the Gemayel government not to violate anyone's civil rights. But there were few complaints from the civilians. Said a senior Western diplomat who monitored the crackdown: "On the whole, it was a humane and disciplined operation." Saeb Salam, a former Prime Minister and a respected spokesman for Lebanon's Muslim community, welcomed the Lebanese army's assertion of control. Said he: "We have been through such a dreadful experience in the last few years that people want someone to take charge...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Marxist branch of the P.L.O.: "If they got rid of all of us and not a gun was left here [in Beirut], the revolution will continue. There are secret organizations all over the world." Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam similarly warned that "if Begin and Sharon are allowed to finish off the P.L.O. here, it will be the greatest mistake for the U.S. A dozen P.L.O.s will spring up all over the world, and they will be the most extreme of the extreme...