Arab hawks talk tactics
INZPA-Reuter Tripoli I Five hard-line Arab lead- | ers will discuss the possibility of forming a joint military command when they open a summit meeting today in the Libyan capita], conference sources in Tripoli have said. The proposal was submitted by Syria, which the sources said wanted a commitment from the Arab hawks who reject Egypt's peace with. Israel to back Damascus in the event of renewed hostilities with the Jsrnslis. This Syrian President (Mr Hafez Assad) put his
li 1200,000-strong Soviet-armed I-1 forces on alert last week i- when Israeli troops and I-1 tanks crossed into South y Lebanon, after a guerrilla atg tack on an Israeli border 1, settlement. i- Foreign Ministers of the “Steadfastness and Con- >- frontation Front,” which e groups Syria, Libya, Algeria, i- and South Yemen, as well as b the Palestine Liberation s Organistion, were meeting k yesterday to prepare the !- summit’s agenda. e Syria and the Palestinian ■ guerrillas are the only memr bets of the front directly s'facing Israel.
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