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...first heads of state Ronald Reagan cabled for assistance in the TWA hostage standoff was not a trusted ally of the U.S. but a frequent diplomatic adversary, Syrian President Hafez Assad. As a Soviet-armed Arab state sharing a tense 50-mile border with Israel, Syria rarely, if ever, sees eye to eye with Washington on Middle East policy. But the Administration was betting that in the current crisis U.S. interests converged in many ways with Assad's. By agreeing last week to act as the mediator in the release of 39 U.S. hostages from their Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim...
...relatively prosperous 2% minority in greater India, have a slight majority. Tensions came to a head last June after armed Sikh radicals, many of them demanding an independent state to be called Khalistan, barricaded themselves in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. After a week-long standoff between the rebels and the government, the Indian army stormed the temple, at a cost of some 600 lives...
...have anyone to talk to" in the Arab world. After Sadat's death and the factionalization of the PLO in the wake of the Lebanon crisis, this is truer than ever. Yet in a book that attempts to get behind the news to discuss the attitudes forming the current standoff between Israel and her neighbors, communication rifts between Israel and Egypt are largely ignored...
...Christian side, the standoff continued between President Amin Gemayel, who is a Maronite Christian, and the Christian officers who have seized control of the combined militias long dominated by the Gemayel family. From the beginning of the revolt two weeks ago, the rebels' anger is believed to have been directed at Gemayel for transferring his loyalty from Israel to Syria. The rebels insisted last week that they thought Gemayel was too autocratic in presuming to be both leader of the Christian community and President of Lebanon. They proposed the creation of a special council that would serve as a parliament...
...Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Zia exhorted his countrymen to vote, thereby demonstrating their support of his government; the opposition parties called for an election boycott, in the hope that this would lead Zia and the other generals back to their barracks. The result was a standoff. Rejecting the opposition's call for a boycott, almost 53% of the country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about 57% in 1977. But in selecting the 209 members of the new National Assembly, the voters dealt a rebuff to Zia by defeating...