Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Syrian forces began attacking Palestinian troops and their Muslim leftist allies during the Lebanon civil war, a worried Yasser Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia seeking help. To the dismay of the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, the Riyadh government refused to intervene with Damascus. But as a kind of consolation prize, Crown Prince Fahd expansively wrote Arafat a check for $5 million...
...Lebanon took an unanticipated chunk from the organization treasury-according to one reliable estimate about $100 million. Although most of the P.L.O.'s guns and ammunition were underwritten by other countries, notably Libya, the organization has had to care for 4,000 disabled fighters as well as dependents of the dead. Widows continue to receive $75 a month, parents $25, brothers or sisters $10 and children $5 each. Since the war, the P.L.O. has founded Samed (Arabic for steadfast), a kind of poor man's conglomerate of 24 factories and workshops in Lebanon that provide jobs...
...many ways the occupation is as benevolent as an occupation can be. West Bank Arabs hold free municipal elections, their newspapers-although censored-are probably allowed more latitude than those in any Arab state, and their standard of living surpasses that of their cousins in Egypt, Syria or Lebanon. Yet even West Bankers who remember that they were also second-class citizens under Jordanian rule between 1948 and 1967 remain bitterly opposed to their Israeli overlords. Says the Arab mayor of Nablus, Bassam Shaka'a: "If I could communicate with the world, I would shout 'We want...
...peace talks in Geneva-a role that Henry Kissinger had largely ruled out for them in 1973 when he launched his step-by-step negotiations. While taking care to mute their criticisms of U.S. policy, the Soviets quickly settled their dispute with Assad over Syria's intervention in Lebanon, which had badly bruised Soviet-Syrian relations and seemed to seriously threaten the peace talks...
...primary peacemaker. He has told dozens of visiting U.S. Congressmen: "I am not preparing for war, I am preoccupied with peace." With the support of the Saudis, he healed a rift with Syria's President Hafez Assad that had been caused by the Syrian incursion into Lebanon last May. Prior to the summit meeting of Arab and African leaders in Cairo last month, he got Jordan's King Hussein to agree to federation with a still-to-be-formed Palestinian state. This week in Washington he will argue that the Arab world is basically united (or at least...