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Assad's peace efforts were helped two weeks ago, when Lawyer-Banker Elias Sarkis, 51, was inaugurated President of Lebanon, replacing the intransigent Maronite President Suleiman Franjieh. Yet Sarkis' inauguration took place under the aegis of the Syrian army which is now trying to make peace in Lebanon, by battle if need be. The Syrian army in Lebanon, which now numbers 21,000 men with 90 tanks, holds the lush Bekaa Valley-Lebanon's breadbasket-across the mountains east of Beirut. Christian Lebanese meanwhile hold the Mediterranean coastal area north of the capital. Between those allies, until...
Even before the Sismik entered the Aegean Sea, the Greek government had angrily threatened naval intervention, and last week it demanded a U.N. Security Council session to stop the Turkish ship. Retorted Turkey's Premier Suleiman Demirel: "Interception of the Sismik will be an act of piracy. Short work is made of pirates...
...arrived in Beirut only five weeks before, after serving in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, posts the State Department considers to be high-risk jobs, was on the way to his first call on Lebanese President-elect Elias Sarkis when disaster struck. Because Lebanon's discredited President Suleiman Franjieh still clings to office, despite the fact that Sarkis has already been chosen to succeed him, Meloy had not yet presented his credentials−a move generally interpreted as a U.S. nudge to Franjieh to step down. Together with Waring, 56, a Lebanon veteran since 1972 and the father...
...bloodshed with a Pax Syriana imposed by Damascus. But he did it in a way that has since backfired: Syria's government, which is predominantly Moslem, withdrew its support from Lebanese Moslems and the Palestinians fighting alongside them and gave it instead to Maronite Christian President Suleiman Franjieh. The move was meant to allow the controversial Franjieh to leave office early and gracefully. Damascus next engineered the election of another Maronite, Elias Sarkis (TIME, May 17), to succeed Franjieh, but the wily Franjieh thus far has refused to step down, to the chagrin and embarrassment of both Sarkis...
Bitter new fighting erupted in Lebanon late last week after Lebanese parliamentarians braved mortar fire from leftist forces to elect a new President to replace Suleiman Franjieh, the embattled Christian leader who two weeks ago conditionally agreed to step down. Fran-jieh's replacement had been a major leftist condition for negotiations to end the 13-month-old civil war between Christians and Moslems, which has taken 16,000 lives. But fearing that Elias Sarkis, the Syrian-backed candidate, would win the election, Moslem forces launched a last-ditch effort to prevent the voting...