
	Where results make sense

Topic: Camille Chamoun

Related Topics

National Liberal Party (Lebanon)

National Liberal Party

Lebanon crisis of 1958

Fuad Chehab

Lebanese Civil War

Michel Aoun

Amine Gemayel

Lebanon

Kataeb Party (Lebanon)

Dany Chamoun

History of Lebanon

Kamal Jumblatt

List of Presidents of Lebanon

Samir Geagea

Amal

In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Camille Chamoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camille Nimr Chamoun was born at Deir el-Qamar on 3 April 1900, into a prominent Maronite Christian family.
		He is remembered as one of the main Christian nationalist leaders, and one of the last significant figures of Lebanon's pre-war generation of politicians, whose political influence was eclipsed during the war by that of younger militia commanders and warlords.
		Camille Chamoun was survived by his two sons, Dany and Dory, both of whom followed in his footsteps as NLP leaders and politicians in their own right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camille_Chamoun (773 words)

	Tracy Chamoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is one of two surviving children of Dany Chamoun (1934-1990), the former leader of the National Liberal Party and commander of the Tigers militia, which played a significant role in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990, and the granddaughter of former President Camille Chamoun.
		Tracy Chamoun has sought to perpetuate the legacy of her father, who was assassinated together with his second wife and two young sons in 1990, through the Dany Chamoun Foundation.
		Chamoun is an outspoken critic of the pro-Syrian government of President Emile Lahoud.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tracy_Chamoun (490 words)

	Camille Nimer Chamoun
		Chamoun's main political goal in national politics was to reorganize the departments so that they would function more efficiently.
		Chamoun was a power politician who forged alliances with the powerful Druze leader, Kamal Jumblatt, in order to to remove president Bishara Khouri from office, so that he himself could become president.
		Chamoun is now able to become the new president, but he breaks the ties with his ally, Jumblatt.
	i-cias.com /e.o/chamoun_c.htm (449 words)

	Political Figures [Cafe Liban.net]
		A French schooled lawyer, Camille Chamoun held several positions of authority and represented his country at the United Nations and at the Court of St. James as the ambassador to the United Kingdom before becoming President in 1952.
		The death of the leader of the Liberal Party, youngest son of the late President Camille Chamoun, was interpreted by militia leaders on both sides of the demolished Green Line as a Mafia-style message, a lesson for Lebanon's other political strongmen and militia chiefs to toe the line or else face physical elimination.
		Chamoun was a strong ally of General Aoun in the past year's fighting, an outspoken critic of the Taif agreement which divides political power equally between Lebanon's Christians and Muslims, and an ardent opponent of the Syrian presence in Lebanon.
	www.cafeliban.net /Lebanon/People.htm (1814 words)

	Naharnet Newsdesk - Dynamite Charge Explodes at Dory Chamoun's House in Deir al Kamar
		Chamoun heads the rightist National Liberal Party and is running for a second term as Mayor of Deir al Kamar.
		Chamoun also said the attack was the same police state tactics that were employed by the army's deuxieme bureau during the late president Fouad Chihab's regime in the 1960s.
		Ex-President Camille Chamoun, Dory's father who reigned from 1952 through 1958 and founded the NLP, forged a Christian-Muslim alliance of prominent political figures that ousted the deuxieme bureau from politics and brought down the 'Chihabist era' in 1970.
	www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/D5A4277841C7192FC2256E7E0027D145?OpenDocument&PRINT (260 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		Chamoun held a variety of governmental posts before serving as president of Lebanon (1952-58).
		A Maronite Christian, Chamoun was opposed by Muslim leaders who disliked his pro-Western policies.
		The Muslim groups openly rebelled against Chamoun's government in 1958, and, in response to Chamoun's request for help, U.S. marines were sent to support the government.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Chamoun (88 words)

	CEDARLORD's Lebanese Page
		In 1958 Camille Chamoun’s Presidency terms was coming to an end, thus a new President had to be elected, according to the Lebanese Constitution (1926) a President cannot be re-elected unless there is another term in between.
		Camille Chamoun lobbied to get the Lebanese Deputies of Parliament to amend the constitution in a way that allows him to be re-elected.
		The opposition to Chamoun was initially led by Deputy Hamid Franjiye (A Christian Maronite) in a coalition with Rashid Karame, Saeb Salam (Two Muslims) and Kamal Joumblatt (A Druze).
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/stelmo/615/1958.htm (634 words)

	Camille articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chamoun, Camille CHAMOUN, CAMILLE [Chamoun, Camille], 1900-1987, Lebanese political leader.
		A Radical Socialist leader, he was premier in 1930 and in 1933-34, when the Stavisky Affair (in which he was not directly implicated) caused his resignation.
		Pissarro, Camille PISSARRO, CAMILLE [Pissarro, Camille], 1830-1903, French impressionist painter, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Camille (463 words)

	[No title]
		With conservative members of the chamber backing their president, Chamoun was able to amend the constitution so that in 1958 he could seek another six year term.
		In the spring of 1958 Lebanon was on the verge of civil war.
		By the end of July, General Chehab was elected by the Chamber of Deputies and replaced Chamoun as president.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/jphuck/Book16Ch.11.html (1153 words)

	Aladdin's Eatery serves fresh, simple food with lots of pita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Camille Chamoun has no magic lamp, not even a brass ring.
		Camille Chouman, owner of Aladdin's Eatery in Squirrel Hill, is looking to expand the chain to the South Hills.
		Camille is hoping to open another in the South Hills, and maybe more later around Pittsburgh.
	www.post-gazette.com /DINING/20020118dine0118fnp1.asp (1107 words)

	Lebanon crisis of 1958 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tensions with Egypt had escalated earlier in 1956 when pro-western President Camille Chamoun, a Christian, did not break diplomatic relations with the Western powers that attacked Egypt during the Suez Crisis, angering Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
		A Muslim Rebellion and the toppling of a pro-Western government in Iraq caused the President Camille Chamoun to call for U.S. assistance.
		The goal of the operation was to bolster the pro-Western Lebanese government of President Camille Chamoun against internal opposition and threats from Syria and the United Arab Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lebanon_crisis_of_1958 (563 words)

	Chamoun Camille - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chamoun Camille - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The presidents have often been at the mercy of forces and groups beyond their control, although both Camille Chamoun and Fuad Chehab (Shihab),...
		Camille, feature film about a courtesan in 19th-century France, based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas and released in 1937.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Chamoun_Camille.html (104 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chamoun, 56, was killed along with his wife and two young sons by uniformed gunmen who broke into the family's residence in suburban Baabda at dawn on Oct. 21, 1990.
		Chamoun's infant daughter survived after a maid hid her.
		Chamoun, son of the late president Camille Chamoun, was leader of the right-wing Christian National Liberal Party.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/maronitecath.html (297 words)

	The Lebanon War, Lebanese Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fouad Shihab became president after Camille Chamoun and although he built up the Lebanese intelligence service, called the Deuxième Bureau, the army was almost ignored and became powerless, small, and was becoming weaker and weaker as time went on.
		For Camille Chamoun, what counted were Palestinian intentions and their willingness to abide by the agreement when put to the test.
		Camille Chamoun, in his reply to Issam al-Arab, appealed to the leftist leaders at Tal al Zaatar to allow approximately twenty-five Christian families who had been evicted from their homes near the Jisr al-Basha camp to return to their homes.
	www.cedarland.org /war.html (21117 words)

	Untitled
		Prior to the July revolution, and notwithstanding the repeated requests for U.S. intervention by president Camille Chamoun and his foreign minister, Charles Malik, president Eisenhower was reluctant to become entangled militarily in the quagmire of Lebanese politics.
		Chamoun was forced to rely on local militias and on the police for resistance.
		Chamoun needed to defeat his opponents and their regional sponsors, and for this he required the intervention of a superior Western force.
	www.lcps-lebanon.org /pub/breview/br5/gergesbr5pt1.html (3575 words)

	Wars of Lebanon - People
		Camille championed Lebanese independence and so on November 11, 1943, he was arrested along with Bechara El-Khoury, Riad el-Solh, and others and held in Rashaïa castle.
		A French schooled lawer, Camille Chamoun held several positions of authority and represented his country at the United Nations and at the Court of St. James as the ambassador to the United Kingdom before becoming President in 1952.
		Whereas Chamoun and Gemayel had sought and received Israeli military aid due to short-term strategic considerations and avoided public discussion of their ties to Israel, Sakr believed there to be a common destiny binding the Jewish and Lebanese peoples in the Arab-dominated Middle East and never wavered from expressing this view openly.
	www.warsoflebanon.com /people.html (10384 words)

	Presidential Papers, Doc#29 To John Foster Dulles, 6 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
		Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanese Foreign Minister, had delivered President Camille Nimr Chamoun's letter to Eisenhower earlier on this same day.
		Chamoun emphasized the close relationship between Lebanon and the United States and commended Eisenhower for his firm stand during the Suez crisis.
		In his February 11 answer Eisenhower would thank Chamoun for support of U.S. policies in the Middle East and express optimism for peace in the area (State, Foreign Relations, 1955 - 1957, vol.
	www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/second-term/documents/29.cfm (274 words)

	Manuela Paraipan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dory Chamoun: I am head of the National Liberal Party, founded in 1958 by Camille Chamoun, President of Lebanon at that time.
		Dory Chamoun: I came into the picture after the assassination of my brother, Danny, who was head of the party and was killed in 1990, together with his wife and two children.
		Dory Chamoun: We were the only country in the region that has experienced democratic rule.
	www.manuelaparaipan.org /middleeast/art049.html (1614 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special \| Warlords, politicians and martyrs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A highly powerful Maronite leader, Camille Chamoun was an advocate of Christian supremacy in Lebanon.
		Though he held the presidency (1952-1958), and fought bitterly to rid Lebanon of the Palestinian presence, he faded into the background as his radical policies eventually backfired on him and he found himself, eventually, without allies in a constantly shifting political reality.
		His elder son Dani Chamoun was assassinated in the early 1990s by Samir Geagea, head of the Lebanese forces and currently imprisoned.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/738/sc5.htm (1086 words)

	The Principle Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was arrested on the 11th of November 1943, along with Riad El-Solh, Camille Chamoun and other activists, and they were kept in the Rashaya Tower for having opposed the French Mandate.
		When it was reported that Chamoun would join the pro-Western Baghdad Pact and run for another term as head of state, the four leaders led an armed rebellion that lasted for five months in 1958 until the election of army commander General Fouad Chehab as president.
		In part because of his efforts to stop the bloodshed, Saqr was invited by Camille Chamoun to join the newly reestablished Lebanese Front, the political body parallel to the LF.
	www.cedarland.org /bio.html (13316 words)

	LebaneseProducts.com Arabic Lebanese online shopping lebanese food store hookah pipe products lebanese sweets ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PART 1 Camille Chamoun’s biography and journey since his birth in Deir el Kamar in 1900 till his presidency in 1952: his college years, his exile to Anatolia, and his enrollment in the Lebanese assembly in 1934.
		PART 2 The revolution of 1958, its preludes and causes, politics of the allied, Nasserim, Suez war, the conflict with Abdel Nasser, Eizenhauer’s principle, Camille Chamoun facing the opposition after the elections of 1957, the Syrian - Egyptian unity in opposition to the Lebanese unity, the assasination of Nassib El Matni and the revolution burst.
		PART 4 Camille Chamoun’s last years and his battles in the long Lebanese war: the secrets of the syrian insertion and Chamoun’s position, the Lebanese front and the conflict between Elias Sarkis’ republic and Camille Chamoun’s state.
	www.lebaneseproducts.com /product_info.php?products_id=20&language=fr (361 words)

	Cascon Case LEB: Lebanon 1957-58 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		President Camille Chamoun, a Maronite Christian, polarized these factions by keeping ties with Britain and France after Suez [see SUE] and accepting the Eisenhower Doctrine aimed at blocking Soviet penetration of the Middle East.
		Chamoun sought Western aid and, in the Arab League and UNSC, alleged armed infiltration.
		On the domestic side the situation crisis eased as Chamoun made way for Fuad Chehab as President.
	web.mit.edu /cascon/cases/case_leb.html (286 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Visitor from Lebanon -- May 24, 1954 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Special for President Chamoun," said the inscription, and on board was the chief executive of Lebanon, first Middle Eastern head of state ever to visit South America.
		In the welcoming committee surrounding President Getulio Vargas, Camille Chamoun noted six Congressmen of Lebanese descent.
		Said he, "I already feel at home."President Chamoun was aware that there are 250,000 Lebanese in Brazil.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,823406,00.html (141 words)

	AllRefer.com - Camille Chamoun (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Camille Chamoun[kAmE´yu shAmOn´] Pronunciation Key, 1900–1987, Lebanese political leader.
		Chamoun held a variety of governmental posts before serving as president of Lebanon (1952–58).
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Camille Chamoun
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Chamoun.html (195 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)