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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unwelcome development. We want them to be moving out, not in." In the meantime, the State Department issued a list of statements in which Syria had promised to get out of Lebanon as soon as the Israelis did. On Feb. 14, for example, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam told his French counterpart, Claude Cheysson, that "Syria would withdraw its forces from Lebanon if the Israelis withdrew their troops." U.S. diplomats note that Syrian officials have repeatedly said the same thing to them in private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Playing a Dangerous Game | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...efforts to bring Hussein and the Palestinians to the conference table, the U.S. seems to be making progress at last in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib has told the Israelis that he saw a letter in which Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam assured his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, that "when the last Israeli leaves, the last Syrian will leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Missing a Rare Chance | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...where he had spent two days getting acquainted with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat said that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were "worse than Camp David." In Nicaragua, where he was attending a meeting of nonaligned countries, Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said that his government would resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls for a future relationship between Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Pinch of Progress | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...prestigious newspaper al Ahram called for an international tribunal "on the lines of Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Sharon Takes the Stand | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

Much of Shultz's time in New York spent on the problems of the Middle East (see WORLD). A key discussion with Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam ran four times as long as the 30 minutes scheduled. The Syrians repeated their commitment to withdraw promptly from Lebanon if Israel does the same. "The U.S. was encouraged by the serious character of the exchange," said State Department Spokesman John Hughes. To other Arab ministers, including Jordan's Marwan Kasim, Shultz emphasized the need for Jordanian participation in Reagan's peace plan for the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shultz's World Without End | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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