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Article: Gemayel, Assad discuss pact // Leaders meet as Lebanon faces power struggle over peace plan
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 3, 1986
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BEIRUT, Lebanon President Amin Gemayel and Syrian President
Hafez Assad yesterday discussed Assad's peace plan for Lebanon, amid
growing signs of a power struggle over the plan between Gemayel and
his nation's largest Christian militia, the Lebanese Forces.
Two days earlier, the Lebanese Forces, which rebelled against
Gemayel's leadership last March, accused the president's security
service and bodyguards of attempting to assassinate militia commander
Elie Hobeika.
Gemayel claimed that Hobeika's men tried to kill him the same
day by ambushing a motorcade of presidential cars. However, Gemayel
was not in the convoy.
Government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the ...