Word: hafez
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International efforts to halt the fighting were similarly troubled. In the same curt tones with which he had rejected a U.S. plan for bringing peace to Lebanon two weeks ago, Syrian President Hafez Assad rejected a French proposal for installing a United Nations buffer force between the warring sides. "It is not logical that a buffer should be established between troublemakers and mutineers on the one hand and the legitimate forces on the other," snapped Assad, whose troops in Lebanon are nominally under Sarkis' command...
...state visit to Moscow last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad joined Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in a communiqué denouncing the "separate Camp David deal" as a "collusion arranged behind the back of the Arab nations," which would make an overall Middle East settlement "significantly more difficult." Both Assad and Brezhnev also demanded the resumption of a Geneva conference, under joint U.S. and U.S.S.R. sponsorship, which would work out a settlement based on unconditional Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories...
Another problem is the continuing lack of support for Sadat in the Arab world. Syrian President Hafez Assad, who was host to a Damascus summit of radical Arab states that raised $1 billion to overthrow Sadat, was on a tour of the Middle East last week, urging the rejection of the Camp David agreements. Assad's hostility was predictable. More worrisome to the Egyptian President was the fact that his moderate allies, particularly the Saudi Arabian royal family, had so far said little or nothing in his favor. Sadat last week sent his closest confidant, Deputy Prime Minister Hassan...
...majority's position rightly condemns Prime Minister Begin for his self-serving reinterpretations of the accord; but it does not parallely criticize Yasir Arafat's vows of accelerated violence, and Syrian Premier's Hafez Al-Assad's rejection of the accord on its face. Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect Syria and the P L O to lay down their arms so suddenly. But it is equally unrealistic to ask Israel immediately to grant nation status to the West Bank, when some Palestinian leaders still seek the destruction of Israel...
Even so, the effort served to prolong the already drawn-out and heated Damascus meeting. Finally, late in the week, Syrian President Hafez Assad asked Vance to delay his scheduled arrival in Syria by 24 hours, until after the hardline Arabs had gone home...