Word: lebanons
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From the Cairo bureau, Dean Fischer has been posted to the Saudi Arabia theater. Also on hand last week were Pentagon correspondent Bruce van Voorst, editor at large Strobe Talbott and Lebanon stringer Lara Marlowe. Moving in shortly will be Cairo-based William Dowell and Scott MacLeod, who was in Iraq with Stacks as of last week. MacLeod, an expert on the Palestinian issue, went north from Johannesburg to help out in the Middle East last month...
Both Rome correspondents have moved out, bureau chief Robert T. Zintl to Turkey and James Wilde, who has previously covered wars in Vietnam and Africa, to Jordan. Vienna-based John Borrell, who in the mid-1980s reported extensively on the conflict in Lebanon, is in Syria, while stringer Aileen Keating is on duty at the important listening post of Bahrain. The four-member Jerusalem staff is on full alert. Washington's David Aikman, who has been monitoring diplomatic angles in several nations, will be holding the fort in Cairo. His Washington colleague Dick Thompson and photographers Dennis Brack and Kenneth...
...there was little forward progress. The bottom-line positions of the antagonists remained fixed at cross-purposes. Washington and its allies say flatly that Iraq must leave Kuwait without conditions. The Iraqis say Kuwait is theirs forever -- except, perhaps, if Israel gives up the occupied territories and Syria quits Lebanon. "I really hope we can find a peaceful and political solution," U.S. Secretary of State James Baker said in a TV interview last week. But, he added, "I'm frankly not as optimistic about that possibility now as I was before Christmas...
...foreign ministers underscored that point in their communique last week, rejecting "any initiative tending to promote partial solutions," a reference to a less than complete withdrawal by Iraq. They also disapproved of attempts to link an Iraqi pullout to "other problems," meaning the Israeli- occupied territories and Lebanon. The foreign ministers stressed, however, that the E.C. is committed to contributing "actively to a settlement" of those issues once the current crisis has unraveled. That was merely a bolder version of the Bush Administration's own doublespeak on the topic of linkage...
...tough-looking, energetic man with the strong, deep voice of someone used to giving orders. It was Rashid's boss -- Abu Ibrahim, also known as Husayn al-Umari, the 46-year- old chief of the May 15 Organization. The date was June 6, 1982 -- the very day Israel invaded Lebanon. That afternoon as the expatriates sat in Rashid's living room watching the bloody assault unfold on television, Abu Ibrahim turned to Awad and asked angrily whether Palestinians like him were willing to help their country or only cared about making money. "Of course I want to help," Awad replied...