Word: suleiman
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...Bell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; Barry C. Mazur, Petachek Professor of Mathematics; Alessandro Pizzorno, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies: Simson M. Schama, professor of History: Dr. Jerry Sebag, clinical fellow in Opthamology at the Medical School; Steven M. Shavell, professor of Law and Economics: Dr. Susan R. Suleiman, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Dr. James D. Wilkinson '65, associate professor of History...
Gemayel also had powerful enemies within the Maronite Christian community. The family of former President Suleiman Franjieh had a score to settle with the Gemayels. In 1978, Franjieh's eldest son Tony was killed by men believed to be Phalangists, and the old man swore vengeance. The Lebanese leftists and the Palestinians may have hated Gemayel, but could they have managed to plant a bomb inside the Phalange headquarters? Presumably it would have been easier for one of the Christian factions, which might have had friends inside the Phalange who were ready to enter into a conspiracy...
...fellow Maronites. In the tense atmosphere, a minor automobile mishap could touch off a firefight between Bashir's Phalangist warriors and the "tigers" of former President Camille Chamoun, often with bloody results. Gemayel's Phalangists were accused of murdering a son and granddaughter of former President Suleiman Franjieh (whose own followers, according to local belief, had once gunned down 17 members of a rival family in a church in northern Lebanon...
Gemayel made his reputation for ruthlessness by the way he imposed his leadership over the diverse Christian militia groups during and after the 1975-76 civil war. In June 1978, Gemayel's forces lashed out brutally against former President the Suleiman Franjieh, who was one of his chief political opponents among the Christian population. In a lightning raid on the Franjieh summer resort village of Ehden, Phalangist soldiers murdered the ex-President's son and political heir Tony, along with his wife and two-year-old daughter. Gemayel coldly dismissed the episode as a "social revolt against feudalism...
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