Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria conferred today with President Amin Gemayel and senior Moslem and Christian officials on plans to deploy the Lebanese Army in the Beirut area and along the coastal road all the way to the Israeli lines in southern Lebanon.
The deployment of the Lebanese Army in strength in and around the capital was to have begun today but was delayed until midnight Sunday, an announcement said today.
The state-controlled Beirut radio said the purpose of Mr. Khaddam’s talks with Mr. Gemayel, which were held at the President’s mountain resort at Bikfeiya, 23 miles northeast of here, was to insure the political support needed to carry out the deployment.
In that respect, the most significant development was that Mr. Khaddam brought with him Walid Jumblat, the Druse leader, who has expressed reservatations about the plan.
Although Mr. Jumblat is a member of the seven-month-old Cabinet of national unity, he had not been attending Government sessions, and the meeting today was his first with the Christian President in almost two months.
