Word: assad
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International efforts to halt the fighting were similarly troubled. In the same curt tones with which he had rejected a U.S. plan for bringing peace to Lebanon two weeks ago, Syrian President Hafez Assad rejected a French proposal for installing a United Nations buffer force between the warring sides. "It is not logical that a buffer should be established between troublemakers and mutineers on the one hand and the legitimate forces on the other," snapped Assad, whose troops in Lebanon are nominally under Sarkis' command...
Following that declaration, Assad departed for Moscow, where he hoped to persuade the Soviets to supply him with more arms and ammunition. The mission was fresh evidence of the heavy costs Syria had incurred since it intervened in Lebanon two years ago. Ironically, Assad's forces moved in to prevent the defeat of the Christian armies by radical Muslim and Palestinian commandos. Since then, however, the Syrians and the Christians have become bitter enemies because the Christians persist-against Assad's advice-in their efforts to partition Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers...
Another problem is the continuing lack of support for Sadat in the Arab world. Syrian President Hafez Assad, who was host to a Damascus summit of radical Arab states that raised $1 billion to overthrow Sadat, was on a tour of the Middle East last week, urging the rejection of the Camp David agreements. Assad's hostility was predictable. More worrisome to the Egyptian President was the fact that his moderate allies, particularly the Saudi Arabian royal family, had so far said little or nothing in his favor. Sadat last week sent his closest confidant, Deputy Prime Minister Hassan...
...main goals of U.S. policy at this stage is to lure Jordan's reluctant King Hussein, the Saudis, and possibly even Assad into the peace process. Ever wary about deciding in haste, Hussein has asked Washington for a long list of clarifications about the Camp David agreements as they apply to the West Bank. The State Department is busy complying, even though one high U.S. official impatiently observed that the King was being "a bit precious." Syria's participation in any talks with Israel seems remote, but Congress provided a bit of bait by approving $90 million...
...majority's position rightly condemns Prime Minister Begin for his self-serving reinterpretations of the accord; but it does not parallely criticize Yasir Arafat's vows of accelerated violence, and Syrian Premier's Hafez Al-Assad's rejection of the accord on its face. Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect Syria and the P L O to lay down their arms so suddenly. But it is equally unrealistic to ask Israel immediately to grant nation status to the West Bank, when some Palestinian leaders still seek the destruction of Israel...