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...issue was bluntly stated. "The Russians give us threats and the Americans give us money. If you were Premier, which would you take?" asked amiable, water-pipe-smoking Premier Sami Solh. The opposition, headed by former Premier Abdullah el Yafi, heavily attacked Solh's pro-Western policies, and was backed by Egypt and Syria in efforts ranging from plain money (not so plentiful as it used to be) to attempted riots. The U.S., making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first...
...Lebanon, pro-Nasser candidates met a humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's propaganda apparatus, Middle East News...
...dependents when disorders occur in other parts of the Middle East, rang with the sound of gunfire last week. With elections only a week off, the neutralists and leftists felt that they were getting nowhere by orthodox politicking, and ordered a general strike. They demanded the resignation of Premier Sami Solh's government which recently approved the Eisenhower Doctrine. At the end of sporadic fighting, seven rioters were killed, 70 wounded, including onetime Premier Saeb Salam, and 341 arrested. Police captured one demonstrator armed with a Czech-made automatic pistol, and accused others of slipping in across the Syrian...
...army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...
Last July when Egypt's Naguib led a revolt against his government's corruption, Lebanese wondered whether their country was not ripe for similar treatment. Two weeks ago 'Premier Sami el Solh turned on his boss in the most violent speech ever heard in the Chamber, then quit...