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Atop a gray bluff overlooking Damascus, a palace of splendid proportions is slowly rising. When it is finished, it will be the residence of Syrian President Hafez Assad. The lofty home is testament to the adroit ways of Assad, a onetime air force commander who has dived and climbed his way through the stormy skies of Arab politics for 13 years. It is also something more: a gleaming symbol of Assad's faith in his future as a major powerbroker in the Middle East...
...have pulled its 36,000 soldiers out of the embattled country. As a result, the Israelis were busy last week making final preparations to move their front line in western Lebanon to a more secure location 17 miles south of Beirut. In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles of U.S. diplomacy. Partly because Assad refused to see him again, Washington replaced U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib with Robert McFarlane. After...
...President Gemayel said during his visit to Washington (the Christian areas of Lebanon were savagely bombarded by the Syrian artillery), "the Syrians remain the real problem for us they assume the responsibility of the maintenance of all the foreign forces in Lebanon, and of an eventual partition of our country." Nasri Diab
...Syrian Army entered Lebanon to stop (as they put it) the war. But they quickly took the side of the Palestinians and started to shell the civilian Christian areas, day after day killing thousands of innocent people. Their aim was to break to the Christian resistance, which is the only obstacle to the annexation, by Syria, of a great part of Lebanon. This non-stop shelling continued from 1976 until the Israeli invasion in 1982 (the goal of which was to stop the PLO terrorism...
...greatest danger of de facto partition is that a prolonged Israeli-Syrian face-off in Lebanon will eventually deteriorate into all-out war. That is reason enough for the U.S. to send Special Envoy McFarlane to Syria this week to pursue a goal that both his predecessor Philip Habib and Secretary of State Shultz have failed to achieve: the mutual withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops. A rookie in Middle East affairs, McFarlane might want to ponder the wisdom of the sign that hangs in the office of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Lebanese town of Naqura...