Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 6/5 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with Lebanese National Movement leader Walid Jumblat (Walid Jumblatt)

Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Walid Jumblat, Lebanese Druze Muslim clan leader, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and Lebanese National Movement (LNM) 1977, describing the policies of his father, Kamal Jumblat, member of Lebanese Parliament, Interior Minister 1961-1964, 1969-1970, and founder of the PSP, 1949, and LNM, 1975; meetings between Kamal Jumblat and Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria 1971-2000; Syrian involvement in Lebanese civil war; relations between Lebanese and Palestinians; assassination of Kamal Jumblat (1977); Israeli invasion of Lebanon (1978); and the departure of Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), from Lebanon (Aug 1982). 18pp