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...enduring peace, with all foreign occupiers removed from Lebanon, seemed no closer. Syrians, Palestinians and Israelis now find their interests so en tangled in the country's political quagmire that some parties to the negotiations despair of finding a solution. The best out come, says a Western diplomat, might be a gradual dissipation of the situation, with no grand settlement that would define winners and losers. If the P.L.O. slowly pulled out of Beirut with little or no fan fare, he says, perhaps Israel and even Syria would ultimately find reasons to bring their troops home...
...antiterrorist law that Suazo Córdova has pushed through the National Assembly. A countervailing danger is that antiguerrilla efforts by the 14,000-member Honduran armed forces will prove ineffective, leading to an increase in guerrilla activities within the country. "Honduras is poor," notes one prominent diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "If [its leaders] want to play this game, they'd better be damn sure they...
...would have been a daunting assignment for any diplomat: untangling the emotions of a region rent by hatred and factionalism. Philip Charles Habib, 62, the U.S. special envoy who has been at the center of the negotiations about the future of Beirut, brings a rare blend of talents to the task. The son of a Lebanese Catholic grocer, he combines the street smarts of his native Brooklyn with sensitivity to the mind-sets of both Arabs and Jews. Twice last week President Reagan went out of his way to praise Habib for "laboring heroically" to bring peace to Lebanon...
...flesh tones; the mansion was later gutted by fire. Then he dropped a few million here (some of it to shed two troublesome wives) and a few million there (to resettle in Florida). Last week the sheik's profligacy earned him a new bit of screwball notoriety. The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., claimed that Fassi and his 75-person retinue had not paid their room and board for more than two months. The tab: $1,475,516.34. The hotel called Hollywood police-most of the department once worked part-time for the sheik-who arrested...
Last week's hotel bill brouhaha made Miamians wonder if the Saudi spending spree was over. The hoteliers say Mohammad recently bounced 37 checks, and on Thursday they got a judge to impound his jewelry and cars still at the Diplomat. Several indulgent creditors, including a taxi company with unpaid fares totaling $157,000, were fretful, and Mohammad's construction crew walked off the job. But Rasheed, the family spokesman, was reassuring. "Everybody will get his money. Everybody will be happy, kiss the hand and come to work again.'' -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by William McWhirter/Miami