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...such move could be not only the over-stretched U.S., but also Israel, the only nuclear power of the region, and a indefatigable antagonist of Teheran. Yet, such a move would assure full-fledged war with the theocracy, and the latter’s main power lies not in Shehab-3 missiles that can reach Jerusalem, but in the power it has over oil prices, everyone’s Achilles’ heel. Furthermore, leaders like Ayatollah Khamenei thoroughly enjoy dramatic victim roles on the international stage to further domestic support for their despotic dominance...
...Shehab A. Madi Office of the Crown Prince Amman, Jordan...
...members of rubber-stamp Parliament; among candidates are such loyal King's men as Amman Ford dealer, Shehab Itwal...
Favored by the pause in the fighting brought about by the marines' arrival, he called on a score or so of Lebanese leaders in both camps. He went into the hills to see Kamal Jumblatt, the Druse rebel chieftain. He talked with the elusive General Fuad Shehab, whose unwillingness to fight the rebels has avoided a civil war-but prolonged the chaos. He regularly saw President Camille Chamoun, who now seemed willing at last to help to find a successor agreeable to the most reasonable of his opponents...
Long-Distance Shout. About the only problem was the capricious censorship of Army General Fuad Shehab, who generally cut any mention of himself from written dispatches. Beirut papers appeared with great blank spaces and offending dispatches were scissored out of foreign newspapers. When U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock pointedly observed that it would be nice to read an uncensored copy of the New York Times, Lebanon's President Chamoun politely offered to let McClintock have his copy when he had finished with...