Nestled in a fold of the snow-crested mountains of northern Lebanon, surrounded by vineyards, orchards and stony fields, lie the Christian village of Kobeyat and the Moslem village of Jaafra. But there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat supported the government of President Camille Chamoun; the 2,000 Moslems of Jaafra enthusiastically backed the rebels. At one point armed raiders from Jaafra stormed the police post in Kobeyat, killed a Christian woman and wounded five other villagers before being driven off.
Crackling Night. Lebanon's rebellion subsided in September,...
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