Word: hafez
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Reagan also sent a message to Syria's President Hafez Assad, urging him to reconsider his refusal to accept the Palestinians. But Assad flatly turned Reagan down, stressing that Habib's prime mission should be not the evacuation of P.L.O. guerrillas but the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. In any event, the Syrians insisted, the P.L.O. leadership had made no formal request for sanctuary in Syria. Nonetheless, Arafat admitted in Beirut that a proposal for Syria to take in Palestinian fighters was "under discussion" and that he was interested in such a move because "my main headquarters...
While Fahd, who speaks excellent English, has cultivated Saudi relations with the West, Abdullah has shown himself to be an adept diplomat in dealing with other Arab nations. When Jordan and Syria almost went to war in December 1980, Abdullah acted as mediator, persuading King Hussein and President Hafez Assad to reconcile their differences...
...close ties to Iran, could not accept an invasion of any Arab state, "because if we agreed to abandon certain parts of Arab territories, we should also have to abandon Palestine.' But the Syrians have no objection to Iran's insistence that Saddam Hussein must go: President Hafez Assad dislikes him as intensely as Khomeini does...
...change in the Iraqi leadership would be welcomed not only by Saddam's domestic rivals but by another enemy, Syrian President Hafez Assad, and by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, both of whom enjoy Soviet backing and have helped Iran in the war. But Saddam Hussein's fall would cause great concern in the capitals of moderate Arab states, notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which have been supporting Iraq. In consequence, the U.S. is also concerned. In a speech devoted entirely to Middle East policy, Secretary of State Alexander Haig told the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations last...
...Lebanon in 1970. Israel had never meddled in Lebanon until that point. Though Golda Meir made it clear that Israel would not sanction terrorists to its north, Lebanon permitted the PLO to gain a foothold. Joining with indigenous leftist forces, the PLO raided Christian cities until Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad came to the phalangists' aid and began fighting the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies. Assad had observed Hussein's problems and worried about a PLO ascendance...