Word: aims
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Whether Israel intended from the beginning of its "Operation Peace for Galilee" a month ago to press on to Beirut remains uncertain, but its primary aim, as Defense Minister Ariel Sharon put it bluntly last week, was "to destroy the P.L.O." In addition, the Israelis were after the top leadership. A Knesset member who belongs to the ruling Likud coalition last week told TIME'S Robert Slater, "We were definitely after Arafat. Whenever we knew he was heading for a certain bunker in Beirut, we sent planes to that bunker in the hope that he would be harmed...
...Soviet Union would actually collapse think that its behavior could be influenced: that economic pressure can force a reduction in Soviet military spending, diminish aid to Cuba and Viet Nam and even, perhaps, bring about a measure of internal reform in the Communist system. Reagan's principal aim in attacking the pipeline agreement is to prevent Moscow from benefiting from a flow of hard currency (an estimated $8 billion annually by the late 1980s) that could be used for vital imports of Western technology. U.S. officials, however, have been toning down their concern that Western Europe could become overdependent...
Haig's resignation did not appease the opinion molders on the right. Instead, it has removed their favorite target, forcing them to aim somewhat reluctantly at Reagan himself. Columnist Will had greeted Haig's appointment as "The Right Man for the Job" ("Boy, was I wrong about that," he says now). But in a Newsweek column, Will last month denounced "Haigism" as softness in foreign affairs. He knew who was finally responsible: "Reagan has had less impact on foreign policy than any modern President (Ford excepted)." When it came to the President personally, however, Will was circumspect: "Reagan...
...Meridor emphatically put it last week, "Israel will not negotiate ever with the organization calling itself the Organization to Liberate Palestine from the Jews-ever." Israeli strategy currently focuses on dealing with the more moderate Palestinian elements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. That is the aim of Begin's limited autonomy policy, which could conceivably be nudged toward a broader form of political self-expression for local Arabs but could never embrace the idea of a Palestinian state-militant or otherwise. "The next public debate in Israel," said former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Simcha Dinitz...
Against this onslaught were pitted some 2,000 regularly armed Panjshiri and an additional 1,500 to 2,000 guerrillas who had flooded in from neighboring valleys on the promise that they would be issued weapons to aim at the shuravi, the Afghan term for the Soviets. "We were happy when we heard the Soviets were coming," said one guerrilla. "When they were bombing us, there was nothing we could do. Now we have something to shoot...