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...have to include Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and make some provision for the Palestinians. At first, the Palestinians were bitterly disappointed by Carter's insistence that the U.S. would not negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization until it recognizes Israel's right to exist. Said Kamal, a political officer of the P.L.O., warned: "You Americans must want all the Palestinians to become extremists...
...scene was sickeningly familiar: an ambush on a twisting mountain road, gunfire and death. This time, however, the victim was not a hapless villager caught in the middle of sectarian strife. He was Kamal Jumblatt, 59, leader of Lebanon's Muslim left and feudal landlord whose power base was rooted among the 150,000 members of the Druze sect. His assassination last week threatened to reopen the bloody civil war in Lebanon, which since November has been living under a "peace" enforced by three divisions of Syrian troops...
...RECENT assassination of Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt in Lebanon, deliberations of the Palestine National Council, and heated reactions on all sides to President Carter's recent pronouncements on a Middle East settlement are the latest reminders of the complexity and frustration of Middle Eastern politics. But despite the fact that the battle lines have always been complex and have become increasingly fragmented and radicalized over time, Americans still tend to regard the ongoing stalemate in the Middle East simplistically as a conflict between "the Jews" and "the Arabs...
...nearby Aley, military headquarters of Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt, the Syrian onslaught seemed equally overwhelming. Lebanese rightist troops had attacked the town just ten days ago but the Palestinians had beaten them back. They had also mined the main road and lined it with sandbag barricades. The Syrians opened with barrages of rockets, sent in swarms of low-flying MIG fighters, then followed with tanks. Said one fedayeen who fled from a burning house: "They use their rockets like we use our guns. We fire 30 bullets and they fire 30 rockets." Palestinian radio broadcasts appealed to Arab nations...
With Syrian ground forces in control of Beirut airport and the port of Tripoli, and Syrian missile boats sealing off the ports of Sidon and Tyre against arms and ammunition resupply-for leftist and Palestinian forces, both Arafat and the leader of the Lebanese left, Kamal Jumblatt, were under pressure to come to an accommodation. Beirut remained under Syrian siege, its food and gasoline supplies severely depleted, its hospitals filled with the victims of continuing sporadic fighting between right and left. If the end was not in sight, Assad's pressure gamble appeared to be making slow headway. "Middle...