Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today he does not believe that there is “any immediate Soviet threat” of intervention in the conflict in Lebanon. But. he said, there is the “danger” if the conflict spreads outside Lebanon “that outside powers may be drawn in as in other Middle East confrontations.”
The Secretary made the remarks at a State Department news conference after he had described the situation in Lebanon as remaining “precarious” with “many factions” having “partly compatible objectives” and “that over all hangs the threat of outside intervention by some countries in the area and some outside.”
Syria, he said, has intervened militarily in the “border areas” but has not conducted “massive intervention.” He praised special American envoy L. Dean Brown is having done an “outstanding job” in consulting with various parties in Lebanon regarding a solution. Brown will be replaced in Lebanon early next month by Francis Mello. who has most recently been the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala.
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