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...forget the extent to which they were deserted on this occasion." It was partly to assuage such bitterness that the Syrians last week reversed themselves and agreed to accept some of the P.L.O. guerrillas from Lebanon. (Other countries willing to take in the P.L.O.: Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, North Yemen, South Yemen and the Sudan...
...fail to notice that Brezhnev's highly conspicuous black ZIL limousine was no longer speeding down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt around 10:15 every morning, taking the leader from his suburban dacha to his Kremlin office. Significantly, TASS reported that a visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled a trip to England...
Since World War II, banners bearing variations of the hammer and sickle have been unfurled in 15 countries. The victory of Marxists in nations as diverse and far-flung as the Seychelles, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua led Richard Nixon to proclaim that World War III has already begun and that the other side may be winning. Without resorting to quite the rhetorical excesses of his former boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig uses almost every occasion he can to raise the alarm: "Moscow is the greatest source of international insecurity
...some of the heads of radical Arab states, which refuse to grant Israel the right to exist, never wanted to attend the summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place...
With the exception of Libya and South Yemen, the Arab states basically want a settlement with Israel along the lines of the Fahd plan. Moreover, some of the states depend on Saudi funds, as does the P.L.O. But a number of Arab governments are now put off by Israeli intransigence and the fact that the U.S. has not given firmer backing to the Fahd proposal...