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...early signs hardly seemed propitious. As representatives of Lebanon's fractious factions prepared to discuss the freshly announced cease-fire last week, the meeting was suddenly scrubbed because the delegates could not agree on where to gather. After a day of delicate negotiating, a neutral site for the newly formed "security committee" was chosen: a deserted bank building in the hamlet of Al Mahattah, halfway between the Druze town of Shuweifat and the Christian village of Kfar Shima, about three miles south of Beirut. Around 11 a.m. they began pulling up in their Land Rovers. Gathering in the same...
...battle was over-and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
...then, including the failure of the Syrians and the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon, and the outbreak of fighting among the various Lebanese factions. But the original purpose of the Marines' mission remains approximately the same: to help a central Lebanese government hold together one of the most fractious of nations...
...bound to be anticlimactic: Begin, 70, had announced his intention to quit three weeks earlier. At the urging of colleagues within his ruling Likud coalition, however, the Prime Minister agreed to put off officially notifying Herzog until Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 67, could be certain of holding together the fractious group and thus bettering his chances of succeeding Begin as head of government...
...mere fact that 1,500 politicians and their supporters had assembled safely in the same room was an event in itself. Officially, political parties are still banned; until a few months ago, such a meeting would have been unthinkable. In uniting the usually fractious opposition, Valdés hoped to convince Pinochet that the alliance offered a valid alternative to a nation staggered with debt and unemployment and locked in an often brutal cycle of protest and repression...