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...country. Sir Walter Walker, 61, former commander of NATO's northern flank, claims to have already recruited 100,000 volunteers for his "civil assistance" movement, which plans to keep power plants going and sewage flowing if labor unions launch a crippling strike. Colonel David Stirling, 58, a onetime commando leader, is organizing a smaller group of professionals, called "GB '75," for the same purpose...
...addition, Spinola announced the formation of a new security force, COP-CON (for Commando Operacional do Continente), which will have the power to intervene to maintain order. Heading COPCON will be left-leaning Brigadier General Otelo Saraiva de Carvahlho, 37, the audacious young firebrand who organized the April revolution down to the tons of red carnations that suddenly blossomed all over the country as the rebels' symbol...
...more customary has been instant retaliation, delivered via ground and air and often focused on the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon that have been fertile breeding grounds for fedayeen. But following the June 24 attack on the Israeli seacoast town of Nahariya that cost four Israeli and three Arab commando lives, there was no response-possibly in deference to President Nixon's Moscow trip, possibly because Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres was in Washington, D.C., shopping for new weapons...
...issue of Palestine. Assad, who had first demanded that the Palestinians be mentioned in the final communique, dropped that requirement as discussions approached a climax. But he adamantly refused to act, he said, as a "sentry" to keep the fedayeen out of Palestine, meaning that he would not monitor commando raids on Israel from Syrian bases. On Sunday night, May 26, Kissinger and his aides met and concluded that the task was "hopeless." Next morning the Secretary had another meeting with Assad, who seemed reluctant to see the negotiations peter out. "You know," he said, "this is really very painful...
...Israeli attack aroused not only fury but also frustration. The government in neighboring Syria adamantly backs the fedayeen movement but has the muscle to keep the guerrillas within its borders on a tight leash. Lebanon, on the other hand, has never been able to control the thousands of armed commandos who live within Israel's most vulnerable and militarily impotent neighbor. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and other fedayeen officials have their headquarters in Beirut. Moreover, the fedayeen military equipment is probably more modern than that of Lebanon's 16,000 man, U.S.-supplied army. After last week's raid, commando...