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Looking out across the gently rippling waves of the Mediterranean early last August. Paul Salem '83 sat on the beach of Jounieh. Lebanon in the early morning hours and watched his home, the city of Beirut, "melt under a red glow of fire. "As Salem listened to the continuous rumbling of bombs, a "deep, deep horror" filled his heart, confirming his deep desire to someday, somehow help reconcile differences and bring peace to the Middle East...
...Salem, now a Dunster House senior, war has been a daily reality since his youth. His mother is American; his Lebanese father, an administrator at the American University of Beirut, was recently appointed Foreign Minister of Lebanon's new government. Born in Washington, D.C., Salem grew up in Beirut and attended a Lebanese school run by American missionaries...
...survived by his mother, Sarah Huntly, of Salem...
...Canaday Hall whose sensibility has not been shaped by the life of Ward Murphy Canaday '07, the designer of the military jeep. In Stoughton Hall, social outcasts have gained perspective on their plight by recalling the legacy of Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton (Class of 1650), who presided at the Salem witch trials...
...addition, Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem reportedly told his Italian counterpart, Emilio Colombo, that the Lebanese army will have to be enlarged from 22,000 men to 50,000 or even 60,000 in order to provide for the country's security once the Syrian and Israeli occupiers have been withdrawn. Such an increase cannot be achieved quickly. Gemayel could fill the army's ranks with troops from the Christian militias that solidly support him. But that could prove disastrous at a time when he is trying hard to reunite the country. The Reagan Administration at first appeared...