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Iraq has searched for peaceful ways to increase its oil exports. Saudi Arabia tried to persuade Syrian President Hafez Assad to reopen the pipeline to the Mediterranean, but to no avail. Baghdad struck an agreement in principle with the Saudis to move oil across the kingdom to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. A completely new pipeline, however, would take at least four years to build. Meanwhile, the Iraqis are trying to rebuild their facilities...
...fact is that the American presence in Beirut has failed. We have not "kept the peace." We have not succeeded in resolving the Syrian problem. What we did was to intervene in a conflict which was not ours to fight. More significantly, we established the Marines as sitting ducks, unable to respond offensively or defensively to an attack...
...peace, not to fight offensively. Getting directly involved in the war could entail the loss of too many U.S. lives, and in vain. For ultimately, the complex struggle taking place in Lebanon will have to be settled by the Lebanese themselves without outside intervention, be it American, Israeli or Syrian...
...study the dispute. Beirut Radio announced that a steering committee representing the country's sparring groups would meet this week to pave the way for the promised discussions on a fairer division of national power. The compromise came about after a meeting in New York City between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal...
Since the cease-fire accord worked out by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. went into effect two weeks ago, the Syrian government has relentlessly asserted its influence over Lebanese affairs. Faced with Syrian opposition, Gemayel and the U.S. backed away from their suggestion that the U.N. monitor the ceasefire. The latest proposal calls for the observers to be drawn from U.N. forces now in Lebanon, but to keep them outside U.N. jurisdiction. Another alternative: ask nonaligned nations, such as India and Greece, to supply the truce policemen...