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...after all, a predictably mercurial meeting of the Arab League. As long as the television lights were turned on and the TV cameras were running, leaders of 20 Arab states (plus the Palestine Liberation Organization) who gathered at league headquarters in Cairo spoke glowingly of Arab solidarity. Once the switches had been turned off, however, the conferees stopped smiling and disappeared into closeted quarters. There for two days they argued bitterly about the plan to end Lebanon's bloody 18-month civil war that had been agreed on at an Arab summit in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia...
...moment, the only Arab peace-keeping force is a motley army of 2,300 Sudanese, Saudis and Libyans; most of the troops needed to bring the force up to strength will almost certainly come from Syria. The Arab leaders at Riyadh also insisted on enforcing the so-called Cairo agreement of 1969, which limits Palestinian movement within Lebanon. This means that some top Palestinian units-such as the Egypt-based Ain Jaloud Brigade and the Yarmouk Brigade, which entered the war from Syria-will be forced to leave the country...
...discovery of illegal activity by the North Koreans in Scandinavia may be only the iceberg's tip. Five months ago in Cairo, Egyptian officials caught two North Korean diplomats with 400 kilos of hashish in their luggage. A North Korean official assigned to Malaysia has also been recalled after dealing in smuggled goods...
...south, Syrian armor drove to within range of Sidon, the only significant port and supply depot still in Palestinian-leftist hands. The two-part attack, if it succeeds, will reduce Palestinian-held territory to three enclaves cut off from ammunition and fuel. If that happens, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, "the war in effect will be over, though real peace will be a long time coming...
...hardly coincidental that the Syrian attack took place on the eve of an Arab summit conference scheduled for this week in Cairo. Syria's President Hafez Assad, who wants to impose a settlement that will suppress Palestinian guerrilla activity and assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...