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Assad said as much at a Damascus press conference before flying off to Tripoli. Between Egypt and Syria, he said, there might be "disagreements on methods and perhaps on certain actions or incidents-but divorce between two brother countries, never." There was another small sign last week that Assad has not given up on Geneva. Without Syrian objection, the U.N. Security Council approved a six-month extension of the truce-observer force on the Golan Heights...
...start of the Tripoli summit, Libya's Gaddafi said to P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat: "I told you all along that Sadat was not a man to trust. Now you know that I was right." Arafat shook his head in silent acquiescence. Without Saudi backing, Sadat simply could not sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about the prospect of a more subtle scenario for either the Cairo meeting or Geneva. Egypt-with the U.S. as watchful monitor-would negotiate...
...OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring's costly fire in one of Saudi Arabia's largest oilfields have made Khalid and Fahd conscious of their country's vulnerability. On one point Riyadh is adamant: Sadat must not sign a separate peace agreement with Israel, though the Saudis will go along with any settlement negotiated by the four confrontation powers. Meanwhile, Riyadh will continue bankrolling the Sadat regime. Explained a high Saudi official last week: "It's not right to make the Egyptian people suffer, even if their...
...Churches has issued a joint declaration warning that "our traditional ideas of tolerance and respect are being eroded." The Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference has put forth a similar statement. Church officials are now urging ministers to attack the front from the pulpit and to ask parishioners to sign an "affirmation" that "the racial policies and activities of the National Front, and other similar bodies, are contrary to the truth of the Gospel...
...avail. Not one of Stevens' 85 plants, mostly in the Deep South, has a union contract;" workers at seven mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., have voted for representation by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, but the A.C.T.W.U. has been unable to get Stevens to sign...