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...refusing to withdraw Syria's 60,000 troops from Lebanon, Assad scotched an Israeli-Lebanese accord in which Israel would have pulled its 36,000 soldiers out of the embattled country. As a result, the Israelis were busy last week making final preparations to move their front line in western Lebanon to a more secure location 17 miles south of Beirut. In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles...
...during the past two months, the deal raises the annual minimum Soviet grain purchase required under the earlier agreement from 6 million to 9 million tons. That means a boost for farm exports, but nowhere near the 16 million tons the Americans had originally wanted. Yet Block said the accord achieved "reasonable expectations" and "puts us in a better place to sell a little more...
...blocks, the technical negotiations were easy. After years of erratic policies and irregular trade, the U.S. team was eager to strike a deal. Said one Department of Agriculture official: "The most important thing is to get a new agreement, to keep trading, to keep the doors open." The new accord should accomplish that...
...officials in Washington could legitimately disagree. Last May Secretary of State George Shultz negotiated a Lebanese-Israeli accord providing for the withdrawal of Israel's 36,000 troops from Lebanon on the condition that Syria also pulled out its 60,000 men. But Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has received some $3.5 billion worth of arms from the Soviet Union over the past year, has refused to go along with the arrangement...
...targeted on Western Europe if the U.S. and the Soviets do not reach an agreement in Geneva by the end of this year. Indeed, after Mitterrand spoke out strongly in favor of the NATO position last January in a speech to the West German Bundestag, Marchais expressed his "total accord," while stressing the importance of continued negotiations...