Word: beirutization
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...forced to resign as Defense Minister last year after the government-appointed Kahan commission concluded that he had made "a grave mistake when he ignored the danger of acts of revenge and bloodshed" by Lebanese Phalangists against Arab civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut in September 1982. Might Sharon's strong showing last week put him in a position to regain his old defense job? "Not to be excluded," boasted his close associate Uri Dan, who recalled that after publication of the Kahan report he had said, "Those who didn't want Sharon...
...press conference, Reagan declared that legislators "must take a responsibility" for the Lebanon debacle because the "raging" debate on Capitol Hill about the Marines' presence in Beirut "rendered them ineffective." Two days later, in a foreign policy address delivered in Washington, the President broadened that charge. "Once we established bipartisan agreement on our course in Lebanon, the subsequent second-guessing about whether to keep our men there severely undermined our policy," he said. "It hindered the ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians and prolonged the violence." As for Central America, said Reagan, congressional...
...appeared certain Israel would invade Lebanon in a matter of hours, days or weeks. On June 3, the casus belli the Israelis had been waiting for materialized. In London, Arab terrorists shot and grievously wounded Shlomo Argov, the Israeli Ambassador to Britain. Israel bombed a P.L.O. ammunition dump in Beirut, and the P.L.O. struck back against northern Israel. On June 5, the Israeli Cabinet approved a large-scale invasion of Lebanon. Begin informed us that the objective was to drive the P.L.O. back 40 km from the Israeli border...
...time we returned to Washington from Europe on Friday, June 11, Habib was shuttling between Damascus, Tel Aviv and Beirut, and urgently needed new instructions. I called Clark and told him that I would draft Habib's instructions and send them over the next day for the President's approval. Clark then told me he would immediately "Datafax" the paper to Camp David, where the President was resting. That evening Clark phoned and reported that the President had seen the draft instructions but had not approved them, judging that the issues were of such import that there should...
...peace-keeping force in Beirut. Lebanese confidence had been battered. Neutral military forces would be needed to give confidence and time to rebuild. In the greatest secrecy, I began to discuss with the French inserting an international force, in which France and the U.S. might participate. Two weeks earlier, Reagan had agreed in principle to the inclusion of American troops...