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...withdrawal of all foreign armies from Lebanon. Many of the officials interviewed expressed confidence that an agreement could be reached before the end of the year. The Syrians, who have had an army in Lebanon since 1976, appear willing to accept their own withdrawal as the price for the pullout of Israeli forces, which are poised only about 20 miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus. Jerusalem, for its part, is anxious to avoid the political and economic burdens of a prolonged occupation in Lebanon. The main difficulty is Israel's demand that 5,000 to 6,000 P.L.O...
Much worse, the U.S. earlier had ventured to guarantee the safety of the Palestinians in the refugee camps after a P.L.O. evacuation of West Beirut. The reason: Washington believed assurances from Jerusalem that there would be no Israeli occupation. Indeed, the U.S. led a pullout from Beirut of American Marines and French and Italian troops who had been sent to oversee the P.L.O. evacuation, though these were the only forces that could have backed up the guarantee of the Palestinians' safety. Some U.S. officials now feel that was a mistake. Says one: "We did pull our troops...
...P.L.O. Pullout...
...pullout by Exxon from the Colony Shale Oil Project does not diminish the potential for synthetic fuels as an eventual solution to our energy problems. Government and private energy planners forecast rising world oil prices in the near future. All foresee the necessity for synfuels before the year 2000. The pullout by Exxon underscores the need for the Government to set a firm, long-term policy through the Synthetic Fuels Corporation for the development of a synfuels industry...
...Establishments And, on the whole, they are right to idolize these activists for their commitment to a cause and for their advocacy of nonviolent yet vocal protest. Without the radicals, goes the generally persuasive left-wing interpretation, the Vietnam disaster would have been that much bloodier and the U.S. pullout that much later, if it ever materialized And Richard Nixon might never have been forced from office...