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...told of a conversation with an Israeli soldier who warned him "something ugly is happening in the city" just as Phalangist militiamen were killing 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. He told of an agitated Israeli general knocking on his door in Tel Aviv late one night to express his concern that Israeli officers had known of the atrocities but remained silent...
Will the plan work? "It's a good thing," said one Jerusalem housewife. "Finally the government has tried to do something." A more cynical view of many Israelis was that the government would find it difficult to enforce the freeze on retail prices. As a Tel Aviv shopper put it, "When the supervisory teams come around to a store, the store will sell items at the legal price. When the team leaves, the prices will be raised. I don't think it will work...
Amid the small signs of accommodation, there was one clanging note of discord last week. Speaking at a Tel Aviv University symposium commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Camp David accords, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis criticized his bosses' efforts in the Middle East. Commenting on the Reagan Administration's September 1982 peace plan, Lewis called the timing of the proposal "abysmal, the tactics of presentation worse, and the outcome...
Marshall Grant Tel Aviv...
...attacking fellow Arabs in public and ordered Egyptian newspapers to follow his example. At the same time, the Egyptian President down-played his country's relationship with Israel, its treaty partner. Soon after the Israelis invaded Lebanon in 1982, Mubarak recalled his country's ambassador from Tel Aviv in protest; the envoy has yet to return...