Word: assad
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...improvement in U.S.Israeli relations was engineered largely by Secretary of State George Shultz, who has felt personally betrayed by the refusal of Syrian President Hafez Assad to carry out a promise to withdraw troops from Lebanon after Israel not only agreed to do so but unilaterally and prematurely drew back to safer positions in southern Lebanon, actually against U.S. wishes. The agreement is virtually a return to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig's "consensus of strategic concerns," in which U.S. and Israeli military cooperation was seen as vital to discouraging Soviet intrusion into Middle East politics and, more...
...Israelis during the war in Lebanon. That exchange, in turn, strengthened the prestige of Arafat at a precarious moment, and may have hastened the negotiations leading to the agreement between Arafat and the rebels. Those negotiations had been closely supervised by Syria, even though Syrian President Hafez Assad was absent and rumored to be seriously ill. Official reports had stated that Assad underwent an appendectomy two weeks ago, but many diplomats believed that he was suffering from some sort of heart trouble...
...first since becoming Israeli Prime Minister two months ago. He and Reagan will undoubtedly concentrate on the problems of Lebanon: how to bolster the fragile Gemayel government, how to bring about a withdrawal of foreign forces, how to deal with the tough and strident Damascus government of the ailing Assad. They will talk about "strategic cooperation" between longtime allies and try to overcome some of the bitterness engendered by the Israeli war in Lebanon. But they will obviously not solve all the outstanding issues between two nations whose needs are sometimes at variance. For this reason, Israel's President...
...P.L.O.'s ranks. The rebels were angry with Arafat for having left Beirut and for taking what they regarded as too moderate a line on future negotiations with Israel. They resented his talks with King Hussein of Jordan a short time earlier and his growing quarrel with Assad...
...killing 25. Arafat remains the symbol of the Palestinian cause, and he still has the support of a clear majority in the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s de facto parliament. But because of his indecisiveness, excessive caution and, most important, the heavy hand of Syria's Assad, Arafat has lost control of his fighting force...