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Gemayel made no public announcement that he was scrapping the accord. He simply accepted an eight-point Saudi Arabian peace plan that includes abrogation of the May 17 pact; Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal then delivered it to the Syrians. Other points called for a ceasefire, a negotiated simultaneous pullout of Israeli and Syrian forces coupled with security guarantees to Israel, and a reconstitution of Gemayel's Christian-dominated government to give a much greater share of power to his Muslim opponents...
Otherwise, contradictions abounded. Though the Administration long refused to endorse abrogation of the May 17 accord, by last week Reagan had evidently reconciled himself to seeing the pact scrapped. Asked point-blank at a breakfast with reporters whether he would accept discarding of the agreement "if it were necessary for the Gemayel government to survive," the President replied, "We're not a party to it, so there's no way that we should have a position one way or the other on whether it is abrogated or not. That is up to the parties involved...
...Shultz, who helped to negotiate the pact and views it as the only tangible accomplishment of his diplomacy in the Middle East, fought for it past the bitter end (see following story). Appearing before reporters hours after Reagan's breakfast retreat from the accord, the Secretary of State insisted with an unaccustomed quaver in his voice that it was a "good agreement" that should be preserved. Said Shultz: "Those who would dispense with it must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas for Israeli withdrawal." Another State Department official made the same point, only more bluntly: "We were asked...
...earnest, probably will not become clear until the Security Council resumes debate this week. In any case, Shultz pointed out some other obstacles to deployment of a U.N. force. Said he: "A significant U.N. role presupposes a return of stability, a balance of forces and some measure of political accord." In other words, creation of a U.N. peace-keeping force presumes there will be a peace for it to keep, and in Lebanon that is about the shakiest assumption anyone can make...
...issues, Mondale and his rivals are in surprising accord, though their emphasis and rhetoric tend to highlight their differences. All of the candidates favor some land of freeze on nuclear arms. Cranston, McGovern and Hollings urge that the U.S. try such a freeze unilaterally to see if the Soviets go along. Askew would freeze the number of warheads and missiles and the total destructive power but permit modernization of weapons under these limits. All would hold real military spending increases to 3% or 6% a year, except McGovern, who would slash such spending by 25%, and Jackson, who would...