IS THIS THE BREAKTHROUGH?

The Saudi and Syrian Foreign Ministers' recent talks in Washington with American leaders have edged along a little the political efforts to find a settlement of the Lebanese crisis. Prince Saud al Faisal and Abdul Halim Khaddam seem to have persuaded the Americans that the solution is not to be found by the US simply giving its unqualified support to the stark demands of the Israelis and waiting for the PLO in Beirut to comply.