Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudi Arabia (TIME, Nov. 1). At that meeting, the league members most involved in the Lebanese cease-fire -Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the P.L.O.-had agreed to a new 30,000-man peace-keeping force and to enforce the Cairo accord of 1969, which constricts Palestinian movement within Lebanon...
...Lebanon. Specifically, many of the leaders were unhappy about the 21,000-man Syrian force that President Hafez Assad had dispatched to Lebanon; initially sent to impose an armistice between the warring factions, the Syrians later sided with the rightist Christians in battles against the Moslem leftists and their Palestinian allies. In Riyadh, the Arab leaders agreed that some or all of the Syrian troops would be part of the new peace-keeping force, which is to be bankrolled largely by the Saudis (estimated cost: $90 million in the first six months) and supervised by Lebanese President Elias Sarkis...
That plan ran into difficulty in Cairo as soon as the meeting was brought to order. Iraq's Foreign Minister Saadun Hammadi, whose government had sent 2,000 troops into Lebanon on the Palestinian side, demanded the full withdrawal of Syrian forces from the country. He denounced the Riyadh pact authorizing them to become part of the post-armistice force. Hammadi's demands plunged the first major Arab summit in two years into a bitter dispute...
...relics but are in daily use." People he meets on a nearby kibbutz work in the fields until the afternoon, then listen to Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens and political hawks call for takeovers of the West Bank. Israel, Bellow concludes, "is both...
...fighting units are now all but immobilized. Nonetheless, the Syrian President and the P.L.O. leader have already moved to patch up relations. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Damascus that the two men met in the Syrian capital last week and agreed that hard-line "rejectionist" elements in the Palestinian movement -notably George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -must be eliminated to ensure peace...