Word: ariels
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...Christian leader who is on good terms with the Israelis and has sometimes been dismissed by Lebanese Muslims as an Israeli puppet, attempted to delay the negotiations on such a treaty until he has had a chance to strengthen his position in Lebanon, Israel's tough Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, spoke out bluntly. In the absence of a peace treaty, Sharon warned, Israel would place southern Lebanon in a "security zone," presumably meaning a military buffer sector run by the Israelis or their close allies, the pro-Israeli forces of another Lebanese Christian strongman, Major Sa'ad Haddad...
...solve the problem, Envoy Habib flew to Tel Aviv for a talk with Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, who has directed the Israeli military operation in Lebanon. At the meeting, Sharon, who refuses to describe the removal of the P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut as an "evacuation," asked Habib bluntly, "How is the expulsion going?" Replied Habib: "The evacuation is proceeding according to plan." Habib then asked Sharon to make sure that...
Watching the withdrawal from Beirut's waterfront, Israel's tough Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, architect of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, declared that the P.L.O. had suffered "a crushing defeat" and had lost "its kingdom of terrorism," and so it had. But in the streets of West Beirut, the P.L.O. guerrillas were full of bravado as their moment of departure approached. Said a colonel: "We are withdrawing but we shall return, just as we shall return to Palestine." In a remarkably short time, the Palestinians, together with their packs and their AK-47 assault rifles, were loaded aboard...
...even as the bombs were falling on Beirut, a political storm was raging in Jerusalem. At its epicenter was the roughhewn Israeli Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, who had directed the invasion of Lebanon from the beginning. Apparently wanting to destroy as much of the P.L.O. as he could before being obliged to accept a permanent cease-fire in Lebanon, Sharon had paid less and less attention to what his colleagues in the Begin government were thinking and had begun launching operations on his own authority...
...large degree, the chances for such a peace depend on the future of the P.L.O. The Israeli strategy, as directed by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, called for crushing all P.L.O. military and political influence. Indeed many Israeli observers were ready last week to declare the P.L.O. dead and buried even before the guerrillas evacuated Beirut...