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...meantime, random firing of rockets and artillery broke out again around Beirut. Shells were falling in the neighborhood of the presidential palace as Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam arrived for a talk with President Gemayel. The immediate problem is Syria's insistence that Lebanon's withdrawal agreement with Israel be abrogated or at least radically modified. Summarizing the impasse, a former Lebanese Cabinet minister declared bitterly: "The Syrian position is clear: simple intransigence. All this shelling is simply a means of keeping up the pressure on Gemayel...
Even the Soviet Union, which has bankrolled Syria's arsenal, expressed alarm over the spreading violence. At a banquet honoring Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam in Moscow late last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said that "we consider as extremely urgent the need to overcome strife and restore unity in the ranks of the Palestinian movement." The message to Assad: ease up on Arafat...
...Beirut Radio announced that a steering committee representing the country's sparring groups would meet this week to pave the way for the promised discussions on a fairer division of national power. The compromise came about after a meeting in New York City between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal...
...with the members of the Multi-National Force (France, Italy and Britain), are pressing for a force of 600 that would in some way be affiliated with the U.N. In a blistering speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City last week, however, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam rejected any U.N. connection. His dubious reasoning: it would symbolize the permanent partition of Lebanon...
...Israeli-Lebanese border. This clause will enable Begin to tell his countrymen that they have stabilized relations with Lebanon as a result of their sacrifices during the invasion and occupation. It is also one of the clauses that most enrage the Syrians because, as Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam put it last week, it indicates that Lebanon has become, in their view, "an Israeli protectorate...