Word: syrians
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...recorded by last week. The government requested and received help in the form of drugs and advisers from WHO, and the U.S. donated $25,000 worth of emergency supplies to Damascus. Syria denied responsibility for being the original source of the outbreak. It put the blame on Lebanon, where Syrian soldiers on peace-keeping duty in devastated Beirut were said to have picked up the disease and carried it back to Damascus and their native villages. That may be true, but the rapid spread of the disease did not speak well for Syrian medicine and sanitation. Indeed, President Assad rebuked...
...leaving Carter no room to negotiate. We had to go to him and be able to say, 'You see, we are not trying to sabotage you. We are helping you in every way that we can.' What better proof can he have than that the Syrian move for a tough, no-compromise line was overruled by the Arab Foreign Ministers themselves?" Although they do not accept all its provisions, Administration officials described the working paper as "very helpful...
...hour stop in Lebanon, where he pledged $142 million in military and economic aid. Then on to Damascus for a 3½hour session with Syria's President Hafez Assad who promptly shot down the whole idea of the working group." In a 45-minute news conference, the Syrian leader explained: "There is a possibility that this working group would be looked upon as a competitor to the Geneva Conference, and I do not think that any of us would like to look at it in this way." More ominous was Assad' s general rejection of the other...
...When Syrian forces began attacking Palestinian troops and their Muslim leftist allies during the Lebanon civil war, a worried Yasser Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia seeking help. To the dismay of the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, the Riyadh government refused to intervene with Damascus. But as a kind of consolation prize, Crown Prince Fahd expansively wrote Arafat a check for $5 million...
...Anwar Sadat met in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd?who makes his first visit to Washington this week?and Syria's Hafez Assad. The three ledfders found the portents discouraging. If Washington is unable to exert pressure on the new Israeli government for a settlement, one Syrian official said, "any kind of peace conference would be quite useless. The only other way would appear to be to resort to military action...