Word: beirutization
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...Beirut, U.S. Ambassador Richard Parker handled the complex negotiations involving the Christians, the Syrian army stationed in Lebanon, and the Lebanese government. The Christians passed along Parker's cease-fire agreements to the Israelis, who delivered them to the embattled Christian military leaders in the south. The Syrians did the same for the P.L.O. "Neither Israel nor the P.L.O. is directly mentioned in the documents," said an official in Tel Aviv. "But it is obvious to all the parties that they are the most important elements in keeping or breaking the cease-fire...
Meanwhile, the Syrians have looked the other way as the Palestinian command in West Beirut sent troops, ammunition and food supplies south across the Litani River. One of the Christians' goals in the recent fighting was to break out a route to the sea and establish a base near the Israeli border to receive supplies by ship from Jounieh in the north. That failed...
...Israelis, clearly, have their own ideas about how to keep peace in the area. Last week's incursion was an unmistakable message to Damascus and Beirut that not even a token force of Palestinians is permissible in southern Lebanon. In the midst of last week's fighting, the Israeli government pointed out, Palestinian Katyusha rockets from across the border hit the Israeli towns of Safad and Qiryat Shemona-scene of a notorious fedayeen raid in 1974, in which 18 Israelis and three Palestinians died, and 15 people were wounded. If Washington cannot persuade the Israelis to back...
...received help in the form of drugs and advisers from WHO, and the U.S. donated $25,000 worth of emergency supplies to Damascus. Syria denied responsibility for being the original source of the outbreak. It put the blame on Lebanon, where Syrian soldiers on peace-keeping duty in devastated Beirut were said to have picked up the disease and carried it back to Damascus and their native villages. That may be true, but the rapid spread of the disease did not speak well for Syrian medicine and sanitation. Indeed, President Assad rebuked his health authorities for their poor performance. They...
...Arafat resolution, which is still being drafted in Beirut, is intended to exploit President Carter's call for a Palestinian homeland last March in Clinton, Mass. At that time, Carter also demanded that the Palestinians accept, without amendment, the celebrated U.N. Resolution 242 of 1967, which sought to end Middle East hostilities by trading a return to prewar borders for Israel's right to exist within defensible boundaries. The Arafat resolution will meet Carter's injunction by explicitly accepting 242, but it will also include his very words on the Palestinian homeland. Says a P.L.O. spokesman...