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...weeks. The country might be falling apart around them, but Lebanon's aging political leaders-including President Suleiman Franjieh, 65-painstakingly haggled and bargained their way through scores of meetings. In the end, they accepted a compromise formula that had been proposed at least three weeks earlier: an interim six-member Cabinet that excludes both the extreme right and the extreme left, but includes representatives of the country's major religious groups...
...personal prestige on the line. At that point, she reportedly wanted to hand over power to Defense Minister Swaran Singh until the Supreme Court could hear her appeal of the Allahabad ruling. But a majority of Congress leaders insisted on Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram as Interim Prime Minister. Rather than risk a party quarrel, Mrs. Gandhi decided to stay on. Last week she was again rebuffed when a Supreme Court vacation judge issued a conditional rather than an unconditional stay pending her appeal. The ruling stipulated that Mrs. Gandhi could perform her duties as Prime Minister but denied...
...toward peace." Rabin was disappointed to learn from Ford that Sadat was not yet willing to make one political concession on which Israel insists -namely, a definite commitment to a specific, long-range time framework for any second-stage disengagement in Sinai. Egypt would like any extensions of the interim agreement on the Sinai to be for an indefinite period of time. Israel insists on signing such an agreement for a specific period of at least three to five years. In return, Jerusalem would be willing to accept Cairo's pledge not to use force during the life...
...Communists, apart from their proclaimed attachment to the goal of reconciliation and concord, they too would probably benefit from a flexible approach, even one that allowed for an interim neutralist government. In the Saigon region, a political compromise would avoid the chaos and dislocations of a military siege. Some pessimists believe that the North is bent on a dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda...
...they believe the three-year review committee set up to monitor equal access should present "annual public interim reports to the Joint Policy Committee...