Word: chamoun
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Next in jeopardy was Lebanon, the half-Moslem, half-Christian nation which has been torn for two months by an internal revolt against pro-Western President Camille Chamoun, which is aided and abetted by arms, men and radio encouragement from Nasser. At the beginning of the week, both weary sides were reportedly ready to agree on Army Chief Fuad Shehab as new President. But success of the revolt in Iraq undoubtedly would set the Lebanese rebels against any compromise...
...free access to only eleven of Lebanon's 172 miles of border with Syria. The U.S. Sixth Fleet stopped steaming off Lebanon's coast and sailed west to land its marines and sailors for July 4th weekend liberty in Athens and Nice. Handsome, white-haired President Camille Chamoun bluntly asked the U.S., British and French ambassadors if their governments had changed their policies...
...their supply lines toward the Syrian border, only to provoke such a heavy mortar barrage that their forces suffered an estimated 150 casualties. White flags suddenly appeared all over Tripoli's Moslem quarter and rebels in the port area negotiated a truce that represented a distinct advance for Chamoun's authority...
...advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
...cannot survive if it clashes with dynamic Arab nationalism, Meouchi says: "Either we live with the Moslem Arabs in brotherhood, love and peace or else we must depart and vanish." To win back Lebanon's place as "mediator" between the Arabs and the West, says Patriarch Meouchi, President Chamoun must...