biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1919–77)
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| biography:
| Lebanese Socialist statesman and hereditary Druze chieftain, born in the Chouf Mts, Lebanon. He founded the Progressive Socialist Party in 1949, held several cabinet posts (1961–4), and was minister of the interior (1969–70). The Syrian intervention on the side of the Christians in 1976 was a response to the increasing power of his authority in partnership with the Palestinians. He was assassinated in an ambush outside the village of Baaklu in the Chouf Mts. His son Walid Jumblat became leader of the Druze after his death. |
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