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...opposed to seating a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization at the conference. Nonetheless, Israel might accept the presence of pro-P.L.O. Palestinians who are not members of the terrorist group. In response to another question from Vance, Dayan indicated that the Palestinians could be part of a Pan-Arab delegation; its members might include some Arab mayors from the West Bank...
...possible compromise proposal the Administration will discuss with Dayan is that Israel negotiate at Geneva with a pan-Arab delegation, including representatives of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. The idea is one of four alternative plans for reconvening Geneva that Vance took with him to the Middle East last month. From the Administration's vantage, the proposal would remove from individual Arab countries the onus of making concessions to Israel and also get around Israel's rejection of a separate Palestinian delegation. Unfortunately, neither side is very hopeful about it. The Arabs, with their own political differences...
Mixed Feelings. The Syrian forces are the spearhead of a pan-Arab army that will eventually reach 30,000 men. Other 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...
...Cairo, meanwhile, the Arab League met again to discuss the Pan-Arab peace-keeping force, which should eventually number 6,000, and voted it a budget of $12 million for the next six months. The Arab League Secretary-General, Mahmoud Riad of Egypt, said that he had ordered a Sudanese contingent to go directly to Beirut and that Somali and Saudi Arabian units would be arriving shortly in Lebanon...
...months of fighting between Lebanese leftists, who are allied with the Palestinians, and Christian rightists. The Syrian incursion openly brought several Arab regimes into an arena in which they had all along been playing covert and opposing roles. There was thus the danger that Lebanon would remain a theater of quarrels between the moderate and radical Arab states now directly intervening in the country. The rightist Christians in Lebanon, meanwhile, were distrustful of the Pan-Arab peace-keeping force. Moreover, with the Palestinian-Moslem leftist alliance worried about a sellout of its interests and the Israelis ever watchful of threats...