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...together again. Rashid Karami, a former Lebanese Prime Minister who lives in Tripoli, asked Arafat to quit the area and "leave with all his brothers." The P.L.O. leader flatly rejected the appeal amid reports that the rebels had made their final demand: surrender now and leave Lebanon, or face an all-out assault when the truce expires on Sunday. By week's end shells and rockets again pounded into Baddawi and Tripoli, though the attack was considerably less fierce than in previous days...
...main reason that the Marines must remain in Lebanon, it seems, is that there is no satisfactory alternative: pulling them out right now would clearly be worse. But the situation shows that a military presence cannot be a substitute for diplomatic efforts. Short of an all-out military campaign, the Marines can do little to assure a stable central government in Lebanon. That task requires the U.S., along with its partners in the multinational force, to concentrate its efforts on the "national reconciliation" talks, which are scheduled to begin this week in Geneva, designed to broaden the composition...
Recognizing that an all-out arms struggle in South Africa is the next step, the U.S. must recognize that when South Africa's white regime falls, so too will the multinationals claiming a neutral stance in a situation where there can be no neutrality. According to Mfanafuthi Makatini the international representative for the ANC, an end to apartheid will mean the socialization of all companies in South Africa...
Prime Minister of Israel in 1977, the situation became even more complex, first with Israel's occupation of a "security strip" in southern Lebanon in March 1978, then with the all-out invasion last year. The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon forced thousands of Lebanese Shi'ites to flee to the slums of Beirut. The dispossessed Shi'ites, along with the Palestinians and the increasingly radicalized Lebanese Muslims?all of them egged on by the Syrians?have made for an explosive mixture...
...from synagogues at the end of the five-hour-long morning services of atonement, they found the streets filled with speeding trucks, buses and Jeeps. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called "all-out war" had begun again...