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...Beirut, the pro-Syrian magazine Al-Shiraa said a U.S. envoy, former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, went to Tehran to discuss Iranian support for terrorist groups and that U.S. military spare parts were provided to encourage Tehran to cease such support...
...Shiraa also said Rafsanjani's supporters claim Hashemi was responsible for smuggling weapons into Saudi Arabia aboard an Iranian airliner carrying pilgrims to Mecca earlier this year. The same sources accused Hashemi of engineering the kidnapping of Syrian Consul Iyad Mahmoud in Tehran last month...
...geographic--who will live where, under whose sovereignty--and the only solution to it is political. Real, apolitical hatreds may not run as deep as Shipler suggests. On the Israeli side, at least, animosity toward Arabs is not generic. A poll Shipler cites in another context showed that while Syrian Arabs were perceived as being violent by 57.6 percent of Israelis, only 20.7 per cent viewed Egyptian Arabs as violent after Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. That's roughly the same percentage of Israelis who viewed Israelis as violent...
...Syrian government, which has been ordered to vacate its London embassy in fashionable Belgrave Square within seven days, reacted with belligerent indignation. "The present British government, since it took power, has made it a permanent practice to launch hostile campaigns against Arab states and Third World countries," said a Damascus official. The state-run television announced that Syria has closed its airspace, ports and territorial waters to British planes and ships, and that the 19 British diplomats in Damascus had one week to leave...
...years, Syria has escaped Western reproach by carefully covering its terrorist tracks. Circumstantial evidence could be found of Syrian links to dozens of actions, including the bombing of a TWA plane over Greece last April, attacks at the Vienna and Rome airports last December and the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in October 1983. But solid proof has been hard to come by, which has allowed Assad to assert his innocence. Just three weeks ago, in an interview with TIME editors, he insisted that "no terrorist acts are carried out from Syria, by Syrians or others...