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Almost in desperation, on the last day the delegates agreed to a further separation of the various militias and to a withdrawal of heavy weapons from the Beirut area. They also agreed to the formation of a security commission, to be headed by President Amin Gemayel, that will be charged with maintaining the ceasefire. Perhaps most important, they voted to establish a 32-member commission to prepare for the drafting of a new Lebanese constitution within six months. Considering the condition of the country, that was a tall order. "Maybe everyone will be back here in six months," mused...
...embassy; a member of the embassy staff, Political Officer William Buckley, was kidnaped by three men at gunpoint as he left his apartment in West Beirut last Friday morning. Also gone, along with the Marine peace-keeping force, 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...
...meeting of the various Lebanese factions is scheduled to take up that issue this week in Lausanne, Switzerland. As a prelude to the conference, the rump government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel last week did the expected by formally canceling its May 17 security agreement with Israel. But Gemayel's Druze and Muslim opponents in Lebanon will be asking for far more than that in Lausanne. They intend to demand a fundamental restructuring of the Christian-dominated power-sharing arrangement on which Lebanese politics have been based since...
...ceremony that marked both a welcome for the guest and a triumph for the host. On the tarmac of the city's international airport, Syrian President Hafez Assad waited patiently as a chartered executive jet glided to a halt and delivered his reluctant visitor, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. The two men embraced, then repaired to a dais while ranks of Syrian troops passed in review and field guns barked out a 21-gun salute. The solicitous display spoke volumes about the intricacies of politics in the Middle East. Having achieved almost everything he desired in Lebanon, Assad...
...subject of Grenada, Seaga said that Jamaica, which sent an invasion force to aid the U.S. Marines, was entitled to remove the threat of an "Amin-like leader" under the write of the Organization of Eastern Carbbcan states...