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Hobeika's near victory turned into a rout of his own forces. On Thursday he fled to Paris with his wife and son. Geagea, who last March had challenged Gemayel for leadership of the Phalange Party, allied himself with the President against pro-Syrian Muslim fighters...
While Gemayel temporarily preserved his authority, he had condemned his country to yet another round of blood-letting. Assad is unlikely to abandon his objective of imposing order on Lebanon, although he is reluctant to commit Syrian troops to the battle. One Syrian option would be to starve Lebanon economically by shutting off its seaports. Said the Beirut leftist daily newspaper As Safir, which often reflects Syrian strategy: "[Gemayel] will not be able to rule, and total paralysis will engulf the state." That situation would be acutely painful for Lebanon's long-suffering citizens, especially since they seemed so close...
...sometimes appeared confused. In an interview with Washington columnists, President Reagan seemed to indicate that the U.S. was ready to strike against those countries if it had evidence tying them to terrorist acts. In fact, evidence gathered by British officials in the thwarted El Al bombing has pointed toward Syrian involvement. Damascus, however, maintains a mutual friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, which means that an attack on Syria could result in a superpower face-off. Though Administration officials later insisted that Reagan's remark had been misinterpreted , their statements left the impression that the U.S. had one standard...
Hindawi was not the only one on trial at the Old Bailey. According to Amlot, Hindawi told British police that Syrian military-intelligence officers had helped plan the attack, supplying him with a Syrian passport and $12,000 as well as the Czech-made plastic explosives found in Murphy's carry-on satchel. "There is convincing evidence," Amlot told the twelve jurors, "he was acting in concert with agents of the Syrian government." Hindawi has pleaded not guilty...
...have the Syrians. Damascus mounted a vigorous campaign last week to distance itself from terrorist attacks in the Mediterranean and Western Europe, most recently in Paris, where a wave of bombings last month left ten people dead and more than 160 injured. In an interview with TIME (see following story), Syrian President Hafez Assad denied that Syria had anything to do with the attempted bombing of the El Al jetliner and charged that Hindawi's actions were part of an Israeli plot to discredit Damascus. The farfetched theme was echoed by Loutof Haydar, Syria's Ambassador to Britain, whom Hindawi...