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...Long Crush. Arabs professed to find some comfort in the fact that Israel chose to avoid a strike at "the strong Arab front line," as Beirut Columnist Ghassan Kanafani put it. But such dubious optimism belied the main point of the raid: Israeli forces had staged a daring attack within 140 miles of the Aswan Dam, on which Egyptians are banking so heavily that they have nicknamed it simply "our future." Now 96% complete, the dam could probably not be destroyed by anything short of an atomic warhead, but damage to its sluice gates and other vulnerable parts could impede...
...gossiping Lebanese police on the corner, he waited patiently until a grey Opel sedan got almost abreast of him in the narrow street. Then, calmly setting his shopping bag on the sidewalk, he pulled out a Beretta submachine gun and opened fire. Inside the car 34-year-old Colonel Ghassan Jedid Defense Commissar of Syria's outlawed Socialist Nationalist Party and onetime commandant of the Syrian military academy, slumped over dead...
Even in the absence of Shaath's testimony, however, no one in Beirut had any doubt as to who was behind Jedid's murder. In the two years since he fled to Beirut as a political refugee, Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork for a revolt against the Communist-infiltrated clique which Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague...
...GHASSAN NAKSHBENDI...
Edward Parson, Boston lawyer and member of the Zionist Labor Organization, and Ghassan Tweinty 1G, will represent the Jewish and Arab points of view respectively in tonight's discussions...