Word: shehab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yeager, the Marines' Brigadier General Sidney Wade, the Army Airborne's Brigadier David W. Gray. Holloway must also make the rounds of U.S. and Lebanese officials-the State Department's visiting Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy, U.S. Ambassador McClintock, Lebanon's President Chamoun, Army Chief Shehab-to keep in close touch and in close tune with the intricate local negotiations. Holloway also has to keep in tune with what passes in Lebanon for public opinion. "The people of Beirut," he says, "are largely in favor of our being here, and they are becoming more cordial daily. Surely...
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...
...airport a half hour later, McClintock and Shehab linked up with the U.S. special commander in the Middle East, Admiral James L. ("Lord Jim") Holloway, newly arrived. McClintock interpreted Shehab's French for Lord...
Admiral Holloway agreed to this odd request, shook Shehab's hand, and then added, to Shehab's puzzlement: "Lord Mountbatten [Britain's First Sea Lord] asked me to send his best wishes...