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...seaside hotel district, managed to get refurbished and reopened in time for New Year's. At the urging of Syrian-backed President Elias Sarkis, a former director of Lebanon's central bank, most of Beirut's banks-there were 73 of them clustered around Riad Solh Street before the war-will officially resume business on Jan. 17. Many are functioning already, including the U.S.'s Citibank, which now offers full-service banking in separate offices in the Christian and Moslem quarters of the city. Some bankers fear a run on reopening day, but on the basis...
Three weeks ago, Premier Rashid Solh resigned. When the fighting broke out again, Franjieh named a military government headed by retired Brigadier General Noureddin Rifai to restore order. The appointment was in keeping with a long-standing rule that the Lebanese President should be a Maronite Christian (which Franjieh is), while the Premier should be a Sunni Moslem (as Rifai is). Lebanese Moslems were furious at the appointment, nonetheless, because Rifai represents the army, whose officer corps is predominantly Christian. The Palestinians and even the neighboring Syrians were also angry. Damascus quickly dispatched its Foreign Minister to Beirut to express...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan issued an even stiffer warning. He said: "If the Lebanese government allows terrorist headquarters to enjoy their freedom in Beirut and at night they cross into Israel, I think a good part of Lebanon will be destroyed and deserted." Lebanese Premier Takieddin Solh denied that his country was responsible. Mrs. Meir's government also came under fire from some Israeli newspapers, which charged that inadequate security arrangements had allowed the commandos to carry out their raid. At funeral services for the dead, Mrs. Meir's personal representative, Minister of Police Shlomo Hillel, was drowned...
Married. Prince Moulay Abdallah, 26, younger brother of Morocco's King Hassan II; and Lamia Solh, 26, golden-haired, Sorbonne-schooled daughter of onetime Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, who was assassinated in 1951; both for the first time; in Rabat, Morocco...
Lebanon's Prime Minister Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination two weeks ago on the road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup...