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...month besieged the Christian town of Qobayat. Some Christian troops commandeered helicopters and rushed to help relieve the town, further infuriating the Moslems. The Christian soldiers were also incensed by the growth of the self-styled Lebanese Arab Army, composed primarily of Moslem deserters and led by Lieutenant Ahmad Khatib, 33, who had served in the regular army for eleven years before deserting in January. Originally, his army numbered about 70 men and was confined to a lone command post in the Bekaa Valley, but it has grown nearly fourteenfold in the past two months and controls about a dozen...
Rabin's Labor-dominated coalition government easily won a confidence vote, 63 to 42; to demonstrate the Premier's intent, Israeli police moved into the West Bank to arrest and deport four Arafat sympathizers, including Arab Editor Ali Khatib, 54. At the same time, Israeli forces carried out a helicopter raid into Lebanon; they captured the headman of a village reportedly sympathetic to the fedayeen and took him back to Israel for interrogation...
...Syria, Lieut. General Hafez Assad completed his swift takeover of the government-Damascus' 21st coup in 21 years. Assad selected a little-known schoolteacher, Ahmed Khatib, 40, to succeed Noureddine Atassi as President. Khatib's principal qualification appears to be that he is, as tradition requires, a member of the Sunni, the largest Moslem sect. Assad, who appointed himself secretary-general of the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, demonstrated that he was really running Syria by ordering the previous secretary-general and his rival for power, Major General Salah Jadid, into exile in Egypt...
Though they have never glimpsed Palestine, barely 40 miles across the low hills to the south, Mayor (Mukhtar) Said el Khatib believes that, "some of them know more than we do about the property back home." It is a knowledge that is cultivated. "When our sons first speak," says Masa'ad Haidary, 43, a holdout Arab warrior until 1948, "Palestine is in their mouths, and each morning before they eat we speak to them of Palestine...
...vote, however, the Amir allowed more opposition to his government's policies than ever before. Most of it was from leftists who object to his aloofness from the rest of the Arab world and his restrictions on foreigners and the press. "Unless we change," cried their leader, Ahmad Khatib, a physician, "we will end up as the richest anachronism of the modern age." To no one's surprise, the government forces won 45 of the 50 seats, a gain of nine over their 1963 victory. Khatib himself, so say the government vote counters, was defeated...