Word: lebanon
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...Lance affair has been diverting Carter's attention from his many other problems. His foreign policy is at a critical juncture and in much jeopardy. His hopes for engineering a peace in the Middle East have been further frustrated by the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians in Lebanon; his attempts to forge a new strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviets appear stalled (see THE WORLD). His one breakthrough has been the Panama Canal treaty, but conservative opposition to it has been building. Hoping to counter some of the setbacks, the White House announced last week that Carter...
...next war there are only two possibilities. One is a victory a la [Israeli Prime Minister Manahem] Begin, which means smashing the armies of the confrontation states, conquering Jordan and dismembering Syria and Lebanon into several small states which will be ruled with the help of minorities. In such a situation the oil states will become very afraid and they will ask the United States to save them. The United States will rush--by invitation--to save Kuwait and perhaps other places, and once you 'save' them you will continue to 'save' them for a long time," he predicted...
...Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed by Anthony Sampson The Viking Press,$12.95,340 pages...
...first cases were reported in Syria and were followed quickly by others in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran. By last week, almost the entire Middle East was in the grip or under the threat of an ancient and dreaded scourge: cholera. Thousands of cases and scores of deaths were registered, but the official figures in several countries were deliberately understated-for reasons of national pride, trade and tourism. Says Dr. Reinhard Lindner, a World Health Organization (WHO) communicable disease expert: "Cholera is the hush-hush disease of our time. It bears the stigma of dirt and ignorance...
...deaths, were recorded by last week. The government requested and received help in the form of drugs and advisers from WHO, and the U.S. donated $25,000 worth of emergency supplies to Damascus. Syria denied responsibility for being the original source of the outbreak. It put the blame on Lebanon, where Syrian soldiers on peace-keeping duty in devastated Beirut were said to have picked up the disease and carried it back to Damascus and their native villages. That may be true, but the rapid spread of the disease did not speak well for Syrian medicine and sanitation. Indeed, President...