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...turn out to be its most difficult test: approval by Syria, which was not a party to the negotiations, but retains some 40,000 troops in Lebanon. Although the accord deals only with Israeli troops, Jerusalem has insisted its pullout is contingent upon the simultaneous withdrawal of all Syrian and P.L.O. forces. Thus if Syrian President Hafez Assad refuses to remove his army, Israeli soldiers will stay in Lebanon indefinitely. Shultz flew to Damascus on Saturday, declaring on arrival that he wanted to discuss "ways of putting an end to the turmoil in Lebanon." After six hours of talks with...
...Robert Dillon's house in suburban Beirut, two Katyusha rockets whizzed overhead and exploded about 100 yards away. The rockets, like several artillery or mortar rounds that subsequently fell within 500 yards of a U.S. Navy ship offshore, were thought to have been fired from the mountains by Syrian-backed Druze forces...
...serious a setback in its efforts to bring Hussein and the Palestinians to the conference table, the U.S. seems to be making progress at last in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib has told the Israelis that he saw a letter in which Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam assured his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, that "when the last Israeli leaves, the last Syrian will leave...
...Naif Hawatmeh, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, led by Ahmed Jibril. Both also enjoy strong support from Syria. Other groups include the Libyan-and Iraqi-backed Popular Struggle Front and Saiqa, a guerrilla force that serves practically as a division of the Syrian army...
Reagan decided Friday to send Shultz to the region to make a final push for an accord for Israel to withdraw its 25,000 troops from Lebanon, after which he will try to get a withdrawal of Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization forces...