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SYRIA: The toughest guys at the talks. Although English-speaking Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa is the front man, make no mistake: President Hafez Assad will be calling the shots -- and the other Arabs will listen...
...SYRIA was quite as intransigent. Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa told the conference that Israel must give up "every inch" of the lands conquered in 1967. The next day he directed a ferocious personal diatribe at Shamir. The Syrians came across as bellicose tough guys who seemed to have no idea how to play to a worldwide audience -- and maybe didn't care. They only had to please an audience of one: Hafez Assad...
...There will be total Arab coordination," said Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa...
Even the most fiery hard-liners attending the five-day meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers last week spoke with gloomy resignation. "There is a new reality -- international, regional and Palestinian," said Farouk Kaddoumi, the Palestine Liberation Organization's foreign minister. That reality, most of the delegates agreed, is one in which the Palestinian people can no longer look either to Moscow or to Arab states for strong political and financial support...
...effect of the pollution on weather patterns could be even more calamitous. Last week Farouk El-Baz, director of Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing, proposed a new theory of how the oil fires could hurt millions of people by affecting life-giving monsoons in July and August. El- Baz, who just completed a research trip to the gulf region, derives his ideas in part from an earlier analysis he did of the impact of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Soil stirred up by that conflict doubled the intensity and frequency of the shamal sandstorms...