Word: fattal
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...ceremonies, conducted in a second-class hotel in the Beirut suburb of Khalde and three hours later in a community cultural center in the Israeli border town of Qiryat Shemona, were aptly symbolic. In the Khalde ceremony, Lebanese Negotiator Antoine Fattal held his chin in knit fingers, and his eyes were downcast. He applauded politely but without enthusiasm when his Israeli counterpart, David Kimche, made a brief speech praising the agreement that was about to be signed. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel summed up his countrymen's attitude when he later declared, "Lebanon is not holding celebrations today. Lebanon...
...last week's sessions, which alternated between Khalde, a Lebanese seaside resort south of Beirut, and the Israeli border community of Qiryat Shemona, the two sides found little to agree on. The head of the Lebanese delegation, Antoine Fattal, declared that Lebanon had never wanted to be a source of hostile action against Israel and was neither "responsible nor accountable" for the longtime presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization within its borders. David Kimche, director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and head of his country's delegation, replied that Lebanon's signing...
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