World IN BRIEF : SYRIA : Bessmertnykh Talks to Assad About Peace
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander A. Bessmertnykh met with Syrian President Hafez Assad on the first stop of his Mideast tour and said that achieving peace requires Palestine Liberation Organization input. A Syrian spokesman said they discussed “ideas raised for starting a peace process that would lead to achievement of just and comprehensive peace.” Meanwhile, Israel’s opposition Labor Party pressed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to enter peace talks.
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