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...were the Reagan Administration's dreams of helping President Amin Gemayel rebuild his country. The leaders of Lebanon's Muslim and Christian factions met in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a round of reconciliation talks last week, but the only power broker on the premises was Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam. In fact, the Lebanese representatives wryly referred to Khaddam as "the high commissioner," an allusion to the French official who ran Lebanon under a League of Nations mandate before the country gained independence...
...Ambassador to Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East's more murderous factions...
...fired a 9-mm pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third man escaped injury. Two groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Organization for Liberation and Reform, claimed responsibility for the killings. The next day, the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, 38, was gunned down in similar fashion as he was leaving his Paris residence...
Assad promised only to discuss the matter with his aides. Syrian officials had been debating the merits of releasing Goodman almost from the day he was shot down, and Jackson's plea tipped the balance. Jackson was given the good news the next day by Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. Ambassador Robert Paganelli, who was not invited to Jackson's briefing, was informed moments later. Meanwhile, Goodman was driven from his Damascus military jail to the U.S. embassy. After putting on a tie and brown tweed jacket supplied by Jackson, he had a celebratory lunch...
Shamir meantime met with Egypt's Assistant Secretary of State Shafei Abdel Hamid, the highest-ranking Cairo official to visit Israel since Egypt recalled its ambassador in 1982 to protest the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The Prime Minister urged that the moribund negotiations on autonomy for the West Bank's 800,000 Palestinians be revived, but he flatly ruled out involving Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat. Shamir's smile, however, could quickly fade. A senior diplomatic source told TIME in Cairo last week that during Hosni Mubarak's meeting with Arafat two weeks...