The World - News from Aug. 9, 1985
A summit conference called by the Arab League limped toward an inconclusive end in Casablanca, Morocco, with moderate Arab leaders unable to agree on the date for another meeting and unwilling to make decisions that might anger radicals. Diplomats said the 16 league members attending the conference have decided to send a fence-mending committee to the five members boycotting it--Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen--in an effort to get their consent for another meeting later in the year. The Casablanca sessions are to end today.
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