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- <text id=89TT2546>
- <title>
- Oct. 02, 1989: World Notes:Lebanon
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 02, 1989 A Day In The Life Of China
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 27
- World Notes
- LEBANON
- A Step Toward Peace?
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- <p> In a televised speech from his hillside bunker in a suburb
- of Beirut, Lebanese Christian leader General Michel Aoun
- described last Saturday as nothing less than "the beginning of
- the chance to achieve peace." He then proclaimed acceptance by
- his forces of a seven-point peace plan advanced two weeks ago
- by the Arab League. The plan has been endorsed by Syria, which
- has more than 30,000 troops in the strife-torn country, and its
- Lebanese allies. It marks the first time since the two sides
- began waging open warfare six months ago, at a cost of more than
- 800 lives, that both sides have accepted a truce proposal.
- </p>
- <p> Arab League envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi, who brokered the deal,
- promised that an immediate cease-fire would permit residents of
- battle-ravaged Beirut "to reopen their shops and return to
- their homes." The plan also calls for a lifting of blockades on
- Lebanese port cities. If the cease-fire holds, Lebanon's
- parliament is expected to convene this week to discuss political
- reforms demanded by the country's Muslim majority.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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