The Journal reprints below the report made to the US House of Representatives by Walter E. Fauntroy, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) on its fact-finding mission to Lebanon in September 1979, and the statement of the SCLC following its Middle East peace initiative (distributed to the House as Appendix E). Both the report and the statement have been extracted from the Congressional Record (House) of October 11, 1979.