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...forced evacuation from Beirut. It is also the result of a wide range of complaints by some of the rank and file that the P.L.O.'s leadership has been corrupt and ineffective. But these grievances would probably not have sparked an active rebellion without the interference of Libya and, more important, Syria. The P.L.O. has always relied heavily on Syria for military and political support, although relations between Arafat and Assad have been cool for a long time...
...sometime scriptwriter and now film critic for Commentary. Grenier's best scenes vividly mix farce and mayhem, but they remain set pieces. He is less concerned with tightening the strands of his narrative than with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid City and oil country. From Libya to Egypt to Iran his film makers go, struggling to shore up their collapsing finances, and everywhere they encounter nothing but fanaticism, ignorance, treachery and greed. Readers interested in a balanced view of the Arab world should look elsewhere. If life is not fair, in the words of a recent...
...Middle East remained in a dangerous stalemate last week, and there were few signs as to how it could be broken. Syria's decision to end its four-day-long maneuvers in Lebanon defused some of the military tension, but a war of bellicose rhetoric continued. Arriving in Libya for a meeting with his hard-line colleague Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian President Hafez Assad declared that the U.S.-sponsored agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon was "in a state of collapse and death." Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned that if the Syrians attacked Israel...
DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...
...government has made some attempts to broaden its international links, sending military advisers to such countries as Libya, Syria and Zimbabwe. It has gained useful mileage from the tours of its daring and innovative acrobats. On occasion, it has even invited small groups of American academics and congressional officials to visit...