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On 22 July 1987 a new pro-Syrian Lebanese Muslim alliance was formed: the Unification and Liberation Front, whose aims were to achieve political reform in Lebanon and end sectarian divisions. It included the Druse Progressive Socialist Party, the (mainly Sunni) Popular Organisation, the Lebanese Communist Party, the (Syrian-supported, Alawite) Arab Democratic Party and the Baath Party.
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© 1998 Edgar O’Ballance
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O’Ballance, E. (1998). Two Lebanese Governments: 1987–89. In: Civil War in Lebanon, 1975–92. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374683_10
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