SYND 30 10 76 RIGHTIST LEADER CAMILLE CHAMOUN SPEAKS TO PRESS

(30 Oct 1976) Rightist leader Camille Chamoun speaking to press after the Cairo agreement was announced.
Renewed clashes in Beirut on Saturday (October 30th) and a warning by rightist leader Camille Chamoun that his forces may resume fighting threatened the shaky Lebanese ceasefire. Casualty figures from fighting in the capital on friday (october 29th) and in the chouf region to the south east were the highest for any 24-hour period since the ceasefire began ten days ago. Chamoun said that if the situation continued to deteriate, his forces would disregard the ceasefire and resume their right to engage in military action. Chamoun has called on President Elias Sarkis to ask the 2,300-strong Arab peacekeeping force to intervene in the chouf area and said he would ask for Syrian aid if there was no response. At the rightist-held port of Jounieh on Wednesday (October 27th), Chamoun, leader of the Lebanese National Liberal Party, gave an exclusive interview to UPITN, on the ceasefire agreement

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