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...have been behind the food riots in Tunisia and Morocco earlier this year; authorities also believe that the Iranian-sponsored Al Dawa Party, a group of Iraqi subversives, organized six car bombings in Kuwait last December. Most alarming, some 2,000 Islamic Guards are positioned just inside the Syrian border, from where they make frequent trips into Lebanon to train Shi'ite terrorists. The government refuses to acknowledge ties with Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French troops in Beirut last October, as well...
...Israel; reconvening of the Geneva reconciliation talks, to be attended by all or most of the Lebanese political and religious factions; naming of a new Prime Minister and Cabinet; and basic reforms to bring about a redistribution of political power in Lebanon. Significantly, the proposal contained no mention of Syrian or Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, a fact that angered many Lebanese leaders. But realistically, there was no chance that either the Syrians or the Israelis would be prepared to leave Lebanon, at the moment anyway. The most surprising aspect of the latest peace plan was that Syria's President...
...their religious affiliation. Although the two main currents of religion are Christian and Muslim, each is a mosaic of supporting and frequently feuding parts. As a result, there are 17 recognized religious groups: five are Muslim, one is Jewish and eleven are Christian (among them Maronite, Greek, Armenian and Syrian Catholics and their Orthodox counterparts...
Shultz said, alluding to Stone's mainly symbolic duties. (Stone handed in his resignation last week, complaining of personality clashes with other officials at State.) Shultz's crankiness may have serious consequences: when he found Syrian President Hafez Assad personally intractable, Shultz refused to hold further talks with...
...were apparently reserved for private sessions, such as the meeting he held with Warsaw Pact leaders. He also conferred with Castro, Afghanistan Party Leader Babrak Karmal and Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Chernenko pointedly snubbed Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, whose leadership has been challenged by pro-Syrian rebels and who had to watch the funeral from a section reserved for the ambassadors of Western and neutral countries. China's Vice Premier Wan Li, the highest-ranking Chinese leader to set foot in Moscow in more than two decades, was received by Soviet Deputy Premier Geidar Aliyev...