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...alternative" to Camp David. Instead, last week's Arab League summit in Amman, Jordan's capital, knocked the notion of Arab solidarity into smithereens. Six of the 21 league members, including Israel's archfoes, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization, stayed at home. As though the boycott were not enough, Syria massed 20,000 troops along its border with Jordan. Rattling its own saber, Jordan massed thousands of troops on its side...
...boycott ringleader was Syria, which feared that it would be censured in Amman for backing non-Arab Iran against Arab Iraq. For nearly a decade, Syrian President Hafez Assad has feuded on and off with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein. So great is Assad's anti-Baghdad antagonism that he was willing to risk isolation in the Arab world with his support of Iran. The fact that the summit was in Jordan, Iraq's staunchest Arab ally, also displeased Assad...
...current debate appears almost identical to events in 1973-74 and 1977-78, when undergraduates considered joining CRR (and in 1978, when freshmen briefly did) before resuming the annual boycott...
...Andrew B. Herrmann '82, a member of the Student Assembly, which endorsed the boycott last week, said yesterday CRR is "an archaic and dangerous institution...
...Currier House Committee voted unanimously last week to continue the boycott because "the CRR has completely outlived its usefulness," William A. Titus '81, a member, said...