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...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...
...setback in its efforts to bring Hussein and the Palestinians to the conference table, the U.S. seems to be making progress at last in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib has told the Israelis that he saw a letter in which Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam assured his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, that "when the last Israeli leaves, the last Syrian will leave...
...Havana, Castro tried, but failed, to have the conference formally recognize the Soviet Union as the natural ally of the nonaligned. In contrast, last week's meeting returned to the principle established by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1961, when they founded the movement as an organization of nations that wanted to remain independent of the superpowers. Said a State Department official in Washington: "It's quite clear that the nonaligned movement is undergoing a process of genuine reappraisal and self-searching. There's serious...
...forces and the subsequent evacuation of its fighters from Beirut last August. Amid the tearful reunions, there was a defiant sense of triumph that the meeting was taking place at all, a public affirmation that the P.L.O. had not been destroyed by Israeli military might. Declared P.L.O. Spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman: "This meeting is an open message to the Arab world, to the U.S., and above all to Israel that we are still alive. Now, what are you going...
...Moscow, where he had spent two days getting acquainted with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat said that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were "worse than Camp David." In Nicaragua, where he was attending a meeting of nonaligned countries, Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said that his government would resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls for a future relationship between Jordan...