Wazzan, Shafiq Dib al-

▪ 2000

      Lebanese politician who, as a moderate Sunni Muslim, was a compromise choice for prime minister (1980–82), but he failed in his attempts to end his country's civil war, which had begun in 1975, or to implement the 1983 peace accord he negotiated with Israel, which had sent armed troops into Lebanon in 1982 (b. 1925, Beirut, Lebanon—d. July 8, 1999, Beirut).

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