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...welcome to come to Jerusalem to negotiate peace with Israel. Begin also demanded that Syrian troops withdraw from Lebanon, and declared that such Arab states as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq should admit Palestinian refugees now living in Lebanon. The Beirut government angrily declined the invitation, and Premier Selim Hoss dismissed the Begin offer as "blackmail." Lebanon needed the Syrians to maintain order, said Hoss, and in any case the matter was none of Israel's business. Ever ready with an inflammatory phrase, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat vowed that the Palestinian struggle would continue "until we overrun...
...Syrian troops had to keep gangs of Muslim leftists from setting up the kind of barricades that had divided the city at the height of the fighting. Outside the 300-year-old family castle in the mountain town of Mukhtara, some 50,000 mourners, including Premier Selim Hoss, a Muslim, gathered in the rain for Jumblatt's funeral...
...land is less of a worry to most Beirutis, however, than the potential loss of prewar political freedoms. At the request of President Sarkis, the Parliament has voted extraordinary emergency powers to Premier Selim Hoss, including authority to impose press censorship, rule through military tribunals and ban public assembly. The Syrian army, acting on its own swaggering gering authority, has shut down eight Beirut publications that were critical of a peace-keeping arrangement in which the Syrians control everything down to mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect...
...Hill of Thyme, a steam shovel scooped up a dozen corpses in front of a crumbling building. Its last living inhabitant, a 111-year-old man named Mohammed Selim Kanaan, was carried out as bands of looters wandered through the streets with armfuls of blankets, radios and canned foods. In the distance, a bell slowly tolled...
...Palestinians who plan this misdeed lay their trap, rather self-indulgently, in the South of France. They are foiled, as they seem to be regularly in thrillers and less often in real life. The details are not especially interesting, but one bit of irony is worth mentioning. A terrorist, Selim, is found dead. Did he commit suicide to avoid capture? Certainly not, his English adversary concludes; no terror ist has ever been held for longer than eight months in a European jail. Why die when...