Lebanon, half Christian and half Moslem, is a small, well-to-do nation that owes its prosperity to the common realization that the quarrels which divide it are bad for business and impossible to resolve. Almost torn apart by feuds a year ago until U.S. troops intervened, Lebanon still remembers its differences.
Last week Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab, who does his best to ignore the feuds, headed for his summer home in the mountains, there to greet a group of visiting Lebanese-Americans (TIME, Aug. 3). Among his invited guests: bulky Nairn Moghabghab, 48, one of the heroes of Lebanon's long independence struggle against...
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