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...Nazzal, a U.S.-educated Palestinian who was born on the West Bank, heads the Middle East studies department at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah and advises TIME on West Bank affairs. Naturally, much of the reporting came from the correspondents who head our two bureaus in the Arab world, Beirut-based William Stewart and Cairo's William Drozdiak...
...reported from that city in the mid-1970s, shortly before Lebanon's civil war erupted. Says he: "The most startling change I've seen has been the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which now functions here as a state within a state." Also filing from Beirut was Abu Said Abu Rish, a Palestinian who has reported for TIME since 1950; he joined Stewart in interviewing P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat...
...accidentally met at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport as they were moving to their new posts-prompted a flurry of symbolic protests. These ranged from scattered demonstrations and Israeli flag burnings in Cairo to noontime traffic stoppages in Syria and general strikes among the Muslim populations of Beirut, the West Bank and Gaza. Even such moderate Arab states as the Sudan and Saudi Arabia expressed their displeasure, while spokesmen for the Palestine Liberation Organization blasted Sadat and the Camp David agreement that led to the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel...
Sadat was also concerned over some other disturbing Middle East developments. In Lebanon, there was more sporadic fighting as the result of Syria's decision to withdraw most of its peacekeeping forces from Beirut. With the Syrian troops out, the Lebanese civil war may break out again, after an uneasy three-year truce...
Tensions in Beirut rose at week's end when a parked automobile exploded near the passing car of Bashir Gemayel, military commander of the Christian Phalangists. Gemayel was not in his car; but the blast, apparently the work of a rival Christian faction, killed his two-year-old daughter and seven others...