Word: tripolis
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...biggest headlines dealt not with threats of war, or Communist perfidy or international politicking, but with the fact that one man-U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles-lay ill. "Wise counsel," "singleminded strength," "indispensable man" -the tributes buzzed in dozens of languages and dialects from Tripoli to West Berlin. The British Foreign Office, which had despised him for Suez, was "extraordinarily sorry." The French Foreign Office, which had blamed him for North Africa, now regretted "the greatest possible loss for the West." The Foreign Office of West Germany, which Dulles had upheld through freedom to prosperity, worried that...
...this uneasy situation, guests began arriving in Kobeyat for the wedding of a local maiden and her Syrian fiancé. The bridegroom's two brothers-a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23-arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani. 34. Hiring a taxi, the three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped...
...between Moslem and Christian groups, the nightmare of this small nation is the possibility of a war of religion. The Parliament usually tries to look the other way, but the Kobeyat feuding is only the most conspicuous of several recent incidents: a religious murder in Sidon. a lynching in Tripoli. "The time has come for the erection of gallows,'' said Interior Minister Raymond Edde, introducing a bill making capital punishment mandatory for "premeditated murder.'' Last week, made an issue of confidence by Premier Rashid Karami, the bill was passed, 28-3. No longer may a murderer...
...Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly the most anti-Communist...
Next the archbishops were locked into the Cathedral of Mariameyeh to vote on one of the three top candidates. Within 30 minutes, the result was announced: Tripoli's Archbishop Abu Rajaili became Patriarch Theodosios...