Word: hafez
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...Saudi plan has been previously reported to involve two parts: 1) up to $4 billion in economic aid to Syria, which would bolster the regime of President Hafez Assad and go far to alleviate Syria's isolation in the Arab world; and 2) the addition of Saudi and perhaps Kuwaiti troops to the Arab Deterrent Force, now all Syrian, that entered Lebanon in 1976 under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. The diversification of troops would assuage charges by right-wing Lebanese Christians that the Syrians have become an occupation army...
...crisis, Begin had darkly hinted that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's envoy had only a week to work his magic, or Israel would attack the missiles. Two days after the Cabinet meeting, in what seemed to be a reassuring signal to Syria's President Hafez Assad, Begin spoke before a gathering of war veterans and flatly declared that Israel would not be the first to use force. Said an Israeli diplomat: "I would say that the chance of war now is almost nothing...
...Philip Habib. After meeting with Begin early in the week, Habib went to Beirut for talks with Lebanon's President, Elias Sarkis. Then he climbed back into his black limousine for a midnight drive to Damascus, where he met for the second time with Syria's President, Hafez Assad, to impress upon him the need for restraint while trying to coax concessions that might break the negotiating impasse. Later he hopped aboard an executive Air Force jet for another shuttle to Israel. At week's end he flew to Saudi Arabia for consultations. Lips sealed...
...Syrians made no attempt last week to camouflage the menacing new weaponry they had moved into Lebanon in support of their 22,000 peace-keeping forces in the country. Syrian President Hafez Assad was obviously defying the Israelis, insisting that the missiles were necessary for the defense of his forces and that he had no intention of removing them. With equal vehemence, Israel insisted that the presence of the missiles was an unacceptable violation of the tacitly accepted status quo in Lebanon's complex political equation and that they had to be removed. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "There...
When tensions between Jordan's King Hussein and Syria's President Hafez Assad threatened an outbreak of hostilities early this winter, the Saudis skillfully stepped in and cajoled the saber-rattling neighbors into a wary detente. Some diplomats now believe that the Saudis may even be getting ready to make political peace with Sadat, with whom they broke relations in protest over the Camp David peace accord...