From: elie@hdtv.njit.edu (Elie I. Mourad)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: CLAO Sept. 14 1992
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:07:34 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.



CLAO Monday Sept. 14, 1992
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Hafez Assad told Elias Hrawi that the issue of redeployment will be delayed
until a new Syrian-imposed cabinet is formed. In contrast, Assistant 
Secretary of State Edward Djerejian reiterated last Friday (Sept 11) the 
position of the Bush administration that a decision must be taken this 
month on this issue.

Also last Friday, the European Community criticized the Syrian-imposed
elections by expressing "regret that the low turnout, alleged 
irregularities and interference and denial of access to voting booths in the 
South has impeded the democratic process and produced a parliament which
does not fully reflect the political will of the Lebanese people."

Due to efforts made by the World Front for the Liberation of Lebanon (WFLL),
which supports Prime Minister General Michel Aoun, about 100 French 
Parlementarians have so far signed a document calling on the French 
government not to give any legitimacy to the new Lebanese Parliament
because the elections were not held in accordance with the standards
for free elections set by the French government itself.

It has been reported that about 120,000 Lebanese residing in the 
Ivory Coast are complaining about being mistreated by the 
authorities in that African country. (al-Hayat Sept. 12)

The Lebanese Bar Association is planning to hold a peaceful demonstration
to protest the kidnapping of lawyer Nasry al-Khoury Sader and his friends
and to express outrage against the violations of basic freedoms and 
human rights. Mr. Samir Abillama', the head of the Bar Association,
criticized the Hrawi regime for its indifference towards the kidnapped
lawyers.

The families of some of the victims of the Pan Am 103 charged that the 
Bush administration is losing its resolve to punish the perpetrators.
American diplomats passed up one recent opportunity to tighten the 
international embargo against Libya, telling the mother of one of the
victims that ... the State Department would not seek to blockade 
Libyan oil exports. Other critics of the administration say that
government investigators have been instructed not to explore possible
Syrian and Iranian links to the bombing, including the possibility
that the Syrian-controlled Ahmad Jibril group had simply handed-off the
contract for the Pan-Am 103 bombing to the Libyans.

Mr. Amos Perlmutter, a professor of political science at the American
University, wrote in the Washington Post (Sept. 13) that if Syria
and Israel reach a deal, it "will involve territorial concessions
linked to security arrangements on the Golan Heights, in exchange
for some Israeli withdrawal from its so-called security zone in 
southern Lebanon... For Assad, such a deal would mean the completion
of his long-cherished and single-minded goal of dominating Lebanon
completely." 
Perlmutter added: "the recent and phony elections in Lebanon, dominated
and run by Syria, were to have effectivelyt ended Lebanese independence
by using the Lebanese themselves. It didn't work out that way because
of the boycott."


Regards, Elie.