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With the self-assurance of an imperial proconsul, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam last week presided over a cease-fire in Lebanon that Damascus had not merely proposed but had imposed. At Beirut's presidential palace, the amiable diplomat-many Lebanese have already begun calling him the "Kissinger of the Arab world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm...
Enforcing Order. Fighting had raged throughout Lebanon for six weeks when Syrian mediators, led by Khaddam and backed by up to 4,000 troops of the Syrian-trained Palestine Liberation Army, proposed the ceasefire. Under its terms, the P.L.A. was responsible for enforcing order in Moslem areas, while the Lebanese Army and security forces, in cooperation with rightist Christian militias, patrolled Christian sectors of the country. Within a few days, rival groups of gunmen had been separated. Widespread looting stopped after some lawbreakers were shot on sight by the P.L.A. and others were summarily tried and sentenced to lengthy prison...
...together again by proposing a "Committee of National Reconciliation" comprising representatives of Lebanon's various religious and political groups. Syria, which is anxious to maintain a stable Lebanon as a buffer along Israel's northern border, also entered the peace-making effort. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam arrived in Beirut late in the week to help negotiate the fragile ceasefire...
...been standing still in Washington while a procession of Middle Eastern diplomats shuttles in to see him. So far, the roster has included Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, Prime Minister Zaid Rifai of Jordan, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt, Jordan's King Hussein, Foreign Ministers Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria and Omar Saqqaf of Saudi Arabia. This week the latest shuttler, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, arrives to spend four days conferring with Kissinger and President Ford...
...captured chunks of the Golan Heights in 1967 and extended its gains in the October war. But in secret meetings in Damascus last week, hardliners and moderates in the Baath National Command engaged in fierce debates over how Syria should act. The hardliners, headed by Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, insisted that the cease-fire agreement should be Syria's only concession until Israel withdraws from all occupied territory. The moderates, led by Premier Mahmoud Ayoubi, reportedly were agreeable to a phased Israeli withdrawal. In exchange for commitments to withdraw, moreover, they would provide Israel with a list...