Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected President of Lebanon last week was the little republic's No. 1 soldier: Major General Fuad Chehab...
Personal Traits: Short, soft-voiced, trim but arthritic, he is a professional soldier of high personal integrity, known to every Lebanese simply as "The General." He attends few parties, reads mainly military writings, says little. His censors regularly, at his own order, cut his name out of all dispatches during the rebellion...
King Hussein did not stay locked in his palace. Once, he flew over the city in a helicopter. Another time he visited the airport where some 3,000 British paratroops represent his final bastion of strength. The young King rode in his bulletproof Cadillac surrounded by nine soldier-filled Land Rovers topped with machine guns. The motorcade sped through streets closed to all other traffic and along a route lined with Legionnaires armed with Tommy guns. As the King stood at attention watching a parade of red-bereted paratroops, a bomb went off in the city behind him-the seventh...
...Know, Brethren . . ." The Deputy Premier's mission was a sign of the split personality of the new government, which seems to speak with two voices. One voice belongs to Premier el-Kassim, a bachelor and simple soldier who has resolutely avoided the usual pastime of denouncing Israel, or even of damning the U.S. Marine Corps landings in Lebanon ("I do not believe the Americans will engage in any hostilities"). The other voice is that of 39-year-old Aref, onetime military student of El-Kassim's and, significantly, the only other man to know the exact hour...
...Republic has stated through our big brother in struggle, Gamal Abdel Nasser, that it will help you and serve you. There shall be no differences among Arabs after this day. Our brother Gamal told me when we were in Damascus: 'Order, brother Abdul Sallam, for I am a soldier in your revolution...