Word: summits
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...James P. Dunn Summit...
...Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest during the Brezhnev visit. The Rumanian leader had always carefully tried to keep as distant as possible from the activities of the Moscow-led military alliance...
Mixed Feelings. The Syrian forces are the spearhead of a pan-Arab army that will eventually reach 30,000 men. Other Arab League nations, including the Sudan and Saudi Arabia, have contributed troops to the Lebanese peace-keeping force. But at summit meetings in Riyadh and Cairo (TIME, Nov. 8), an understanding was reached that the largest contingent of the "Arab Security Force" would be the Syrian brigades sent into Lebanon earlier this year by President Hafez Assad. Some Arab leaders had mixed feelings about so large a Syrian force in Lebanon; they were alarmed by the dominant Syrian presence...
...glowingly of 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...
...Saadun Hammadi, whose government had sent 2,000 troops into Lebanon on the Palestinian side, demanded the full withdrawal of Syrian forces from the country. He denounced the Riyadh pact authorizing them to become part of the post-armistice force. Hammadi's demands plunged the first major Arab summit in two years into a bitter dispute...