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...Arab solidarity. Once the switches had been turned off, however, the conferees stopped smiling and disappeared into closeted quarters. There for two days they argued bitterly about the plan to end Lebanon's bloody 18-month civil war that had been agreed on at an Arab summit in Riyadh, the capital of 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...
...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...
After 18 months of bloody civil war, at least 37,000 deaths and more than 50 failed cease-fire agreements, last week there were some fresh signs of hope for eventual peace in Lebanon. In Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, six Arab leaders who are most deeply concerned with the war met at the invitation-or command, considering the weight of his oil subsidies to other Arab nations-of the Saudis' King Khalid. At the end of the two-day summit, the six-Khalid, Sheik Sabah as Salim as-Sabah of Kuwait, the Presidents of Egypt, Syria...
...first problem faced by the Riyadh summit was not the civil war but the running feud between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syria's President Hafez Assad. Their squabbling had seriously hurt chances for peace in Lebanon, since the Egyptians have posed as protectors of the Palestinians while Syrian forces have ended up fighting them. At the urging of other Arab leaders, Assad agreed to stop the flow of "negative propaganda" about Egypt from Damascus, which for months has criticized Sadat for signing Sinai accords with Israel. Sadat agreed to recognize Damascus' right to a kind of neighborly...
Assad emerged from Riyadh last week with Arab support for his efforts to enforce a peace in Lebanon. The Riyadh agreement called for an Arab peace-keeping force of 30,000 men to police Lebanon. The force is technically to be under the supervision of new Lebanese President Elias Sarkis. At the moment, the only Arab peace-keeping force is a motley army of 2,300 Sudanese, Saudis and Libyans; most of the troops needed to bring the force up to strength will almost certainly come from Syria. The Arab leaders at Riyadh also insisted on enforcing the so-called...