Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute. Beirut Radio announced that a steering committee representing the country's sparring groups would meet this week to pave the way for the promised discussions on a fairer division of national power. The compromise came about after a meeting in New York City between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal...
...along with the members of the Multi-National Force (France, Italy and Britain), are pressing for a force of 600 that would in some way be affiliated with the U.N. In a blistering speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City last week, however, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam rejected any U.N. connection. His dubious reasoning: it would symbolize the permanent partition of Lebanon...
Israel, taking advantage of Russia's difficulties (and taking for granted U.S. preoccupation with a presidential election), invaded Egypt. Great Britain and France, aggression-bound, moved in, determined to overthrow Gamal Abdel Nasser and recover the Suez Canal...
...across the Israeli-Lebanese border. This clause will enable Begin to tell his countrymen that they have stabilized relations with Lebanon as a result of their sacrifices during the invasion and occupation. It is also one of the clauses that most enrage the Syrians because, as Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam put it last week, it indicates that Lebanon has become, in their view, "an Israeli protectorate...
...unwelcome development. We want them to be moving out, not in." In the meantime, the State Department issued a list of statements in which Syria had promised to get out of Lebanon as soon as the Israelis did. On Feb. 14, for example, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam told his French counterpart, Claude Cheysson, that "Syria would withdraw its forces from Lebanon if the Israelis withdrew their troops." U.S. diplomats note that Syrian officials have repeatedly said the same thing to them in private...