Word: assaults
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...Liberation Organization guerrillas holed up in the wreckage of encircled West Beirut. At the direction of Haig, who stayed in office temporarily to manage the crisis, the Administration was pursuing a strategy that was at once complicated and somewhat contradictory. It was simultaneously urging Israel to avoid a final assault and pressing P.L.O. leaders to negotiate an agreement by which they and all their armed followers would leave the city, backed up by warnings that Washington cannot hold off the Israelis indefinitely (see WORLD...
...that Shultz will face within the Administration over Israel. When Haig, at President Reagan's direct orders, met with Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens, one White House source reported that the outgoing Secretary of State threatened a suspension of U.S. military and economic aid if Israel launched a final assault on West Beirut. Later, both the State Department and the White House denied that report, insisting that Haig had only warned against an assault in general terms. The conflicting reports appeared to mirror a split not only among Reagan's advisers but in the President's own views...
Israel's assault was criticized from abroad for causing so many civilian casualties and for the possibly illegal use of some of its advanced American weaponry (see box). At home, some of Begin's critics felt the government had misled the country about its war aims. Shimon Peres, leader of the Labor opposition, noted in the Knesset that he did not want to get into a political argument, but said he hoped that Begin realized that there were public doubts about the campaign. Although the protests continued, a poll published last week by the Jerusalem Post suggested that...
...Palestinians will have to do what they are told or they will be killed." Wazzan shouted back: "Give me a Kalashnikov [an assault rifle] and I will be killed with them...
...returned to the battlefront more organized and determined than ever. The front has apparently patched over the internal quarrels that prevented it from seriously disrupting the March elections. Moreover, the guerrillas have been able to neutralize the Salvadoran army's best combat units through more sophisticated assault strategies. "Before, only one faction of the left could attack at once," said a U.S. official. "Now there is more planning and attack by several units...