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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
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<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.
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<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.
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