Peaceful, pro-Western Lebanon, where Americans usually send their dependents when disorders occur in other parts of the Middle East, rang with the sound of gunfire last week. With elections only a week off, the neutralists and leftists felt that they were getting nowhere by orthodox politicking, and ordered a general strike. They demanded the resignation of Premier Sami Solh's government which recently approved the Eisenhower Doctrine. At the end of sporadic fighting, seven rioters were killed, 70 wounded, including onetime Premier Saeb Salam, and 341 arrested. Police captured one demonstrator armed...
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