SITUATION REPORT: LEBAND-JANUARY 20, 1982-1100 HOURS LOCAL

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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 20, 1982
• Content Type: CABLE

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AND AMBASSADOR DILLON THEN MET WITH-FOREIGN MINISTER
FUAD BUUTRUS. UN JANUARY 209 SENATOR PERCY MET WITH
PRESIDENT ILYAS.SARKIS AND PRIME MINISTER SHAFIO AL.WAZZAN,
AS WELL AS FORMER PRIME MINISTER SA'B SALAM, LEBANESE
FRONT HEAD CAMILLE CHAMOUN:ACCOMPANIED_8Y PHALANGE. LEADER PIERRE
GEMAYEL AND LEBANESE FOPCES-COMMANDER BASHIR GEMAYEL.
69 (U) AL-WAZZAN TV INTEPVIEW
A. PRIME MINISTER. AL-WAZZAN GAVE AN INTERVIEW ON LEBA-
NESE-TELEVISION ON JANUARY 19 DURING WHICH HE SAID THAT
WHILE THE ARAB FOLLOW-UP-COMMITTEE (AFC) AS HAVING
DIFFICULTIES9 IT HAD NOT FAILED. HE RECALLED THAT THE
AFC HAD DECIDED TO AUGMENT THE ISF (PULICE) WITH LAF
TROOPS. UNDER HIS COMMAND AND TO DEPLOY THEM ALONG THE
EAST-WEST CONFRONTATION -LINE,_.BUT NOTED THAT A *CERTAIN
PARTY" (THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT). HAD OPPOSED THIS.ARRANGE-
MENT, THEREBY BLOCKING FURTHER PROGRESS,
be AL-WAZZAN-A000SED ALL THE. BELLIGERENT PARTIES. IN
LEBANON UF NOT REALLY WANTING THE GOL TO ASSUME ITS
RESPONSIBILITIES. ME SAID THAT NOT A.SINGLE POLITICAL
FIGURE HAD ASKED HIM TO TAKE OVER AND RUN ANY PART OF
LEBANON.
79 ADF MANDATE EXTENDED.
A. (U) N JANUARY 199 THE ARAB LEAGUE IN TUNIS VOTED
A SIX-MONTH EXTENSION OF THE ADF MANDATE IN LEBANON.
Be (C)) 84-19 SUDAN AND JORDAN REPORTEDLY EXPRESSED
RESERVATIONS, WHILE SAUDI ARABIA9 KUWAIT, SOMALIA AND
OMAN DID NUT PARTICIPATE IN THE VOTING..
8.(U) JUMBLATT RETURNS FROM ALGIERS.
THE LOCAL PRESS REPORTS THAT.ON JANAURY 19 NATIONAL-
MOVEMENT AND PSP HEAD WALID JUMBLATT RETURNED FROM
ALGERIA9 WHERE HE HAD MET WITH ALGERIAN PRESIDENT CHADLI
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BRING AN ESCALATION IN THE FIGHTING IN LEBANON, .ME
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