Word: tripolis
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...gathering had long been ballyhooed as a triumph for Libya's radical Muammar Gaddafi, his chance to gain the international respect that he has always longed to acquire. Instead, the 19th annual four-day summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity, scheduled to begin last week in Tripoli, was an embarrassing failure for the Libyan leader...
...deployment of the Lebanese army and a multinational force before the P.L.O. forces leave Beirut. As the P.L.O. left, Israeli forces would make a token withdrawal. Israeli officials last week said they were opposed to both conditions. The departure of some 5,000 P.L.O. fighters in and around Tripoli in northern Lebanon and the 15,000 to 20,000 commandos in the northern Bekaa Valley was to be worked out in subsequent agreements...
...P.L.O. has also made what it stressed was a request, not a demand, that some 1,000 of its 6,000 guerrillas in West Beirut be permitted to move to Tripoli rather than go to Syria. The reason: alS though most of the guerrillas in Beirut came from countries to which they may be repatriated, about 1,000 were born in Lebanon or have no proper papers and thus know no other home. Arafat would like a temporary haven for these forces in Lebanon until a permanent one can be found. The P.L.O. also wants guarantees for the safety...
...Khaddam endorsed a new plan for getting the P.L.O. out of Beirut: the guerrillas would first withdraw to other parts of Lebanon. At week's end Philip Habib, the U.S. special envoy in the Middle East, was reportedly hammering out a detailed version: the P.L.O. would go to Tripoli in northern Lebanon, while the Israelis would withdraw to Damur, twelve miles south of Beirut. This would be the first stage in a phased withdrawal of all P.L.O., Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon...
...vetoed a French-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution that did not require P.L.O. disarmament but called for an Israeli withdrawal from Beirut.) Third, the P.L.O. would move out of Beirut, either to their camps south of the city or to centers in the north near Tripoli. The Israelis, meanwhile, would pull back a few kilometers. Once these steps had been taken, Habib would begin the complex negotiations to establish a stable Lebanese government and create some kind of peacekeeping buffer force in the south-perhaps with the help of U.S. troops-that would be strong enough to persuade the Israelis...