Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 19 months of bloodshed and brutality that have taken at least 37,000 lives, the civil war in Lebanon took a hopeful turn last week. Reason: Syrian troops, who only a week earlier had been combatants in the war, suddenly switched to peacemakers and took the road to Beirut-in order to enforce peace between the Christian and Moslem factions. With the tacit permission of other major Arab powers-notably Egypt and Saudi Arabia-Syria was on the verge of turning Lebanon into a de facto protectorate...
...greet his Syrian counterpart. They saluted formally, shook hands, embraced and finally kissed. Everyone was smiling. In the car on the way back to Beirut, the Palestinian commander said: 'I wish they had done this from the beginning, moving into both sides. I hope they never leave Lebanon.' The Syrians, however, were received coolly in Christian areas. At Jounieh civilians on the roadside looked grim, and two militiamen standing with their guns dangling stared in amazement as the tanks rolled...
...Arab League nations, including the Sudan and Saudi Arabia, have contributed troops to the Lebanese peace-keeping force. But at summit meetings in Riyadh and Cairo (TIME, Nov. 8), an understanding was reached that the largest contingent of the "Arab Security Force" would be the Syrian brigades sent into Lebanon earlier this year by President Hafez Assad. Some Arab leaders had mixed feelings about so large a Syrian force in Lebanon; they were alarmed by the dominant Syrian presence, but at the same time relieved that any fighting to be done would be by the Syrians. Moving cautiously to avoid...
...take any initiative to reach a resolution. The problem wasn't "resolved" during the Lebanese war and will not be resolved in the future by violent means: that message was made abundantly clear by the cease-fire imposed by the Saudi Arabians on the Syrians and Palestinians in Lebanon last month and at the summits in Riyadh and Cairo. Saudi Arabia and Egypt simply would not allow Syria to deliver the final blow to the Palestinians...
...obvious result of the Syrian-Palestinian clash in Lebanon has been the emergence of a completely autonomous PLO from Syrian influence. To a certain extent this is also true with respect to Russia. The Russians never actively supported the Palestinians during the war, and in a sense they even turned their backs on them. To the extent that their statelessness and relative weakening of political and military strength allows, the PLO has become a much more independent group and has therefore much greater flexibility of operation. The first signs of this flexibility are hints of a more pro-American stand...