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...bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody's wandered in and asked for a drink yet," said jubilant Intra Bank Founder Yusuf Bedas, 50, adding, "Conservative banks belong to the past...
...Yusuf K. H. Ibish 3G, the new president of the Society, acknowledged the charge, but said the group "has been registered with the Dean, and will present a constitution within two weeks." "If Khan didn't like the situation last year, why didn't he go to the press when he was still Secretary," Ibish asked...
...people who spearheaded the move to keep the non-Moslems from voting were elected to all three offices. They are Yusuf K. H. Ibish 3G, President, Muhammad I. Chaudhry 3G, secretary, and Mohammed A. H. Shabaan 5G, treasurer," Khan continued...
...scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando for a bit of high-class haggling over tea and Turkish cigarettes...
General Fuad Shehab, 56, patrician, arthritic, French-trained professional soldier, has headed Lebanon's 8,000-man army since 1945. A Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except...