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Credit for the attack on Qiryat Shemona was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command-a small, radical and secretive offshoot of George Habash's P.F.L.P. Threatening "more revolutionary suicide missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan issued an even stiffer warning. He said: "If the Lebanese government allows terrorist headquarters to enjoy their freedom in Beirut and at night they cross into Israel, I think a good part of Lebanon will be destroyed and deserted." Lebanese Premier Takieddin Solh denied that his country was responsible. Mrs. Meir's government also came under fire from some Israeli newspapers, which charged that inadequate security arrangements had allowed the commandos to carry out their raid. At funeral services for the dead, Mrs. Meir's personal representative, Minister of Police Shlomo Hillel, was drowned...
...because of what they see as his lack of gratitude for Soviet arms. Said one Soviet host at a party for the visiting Americans: "Sadat with Kissinger is like a woman who opens her dress and offers herself." Sadat replied in kind. In an interview last week with the Beirut newspaper Al-Anwar, Sadat said the Soviets had deliberately deceived him by telling him that Syria had agreed to a ceasefire on the first day of the October...
...Arabs will get further help in locating U.S. investments from American banks that are setting up throughout the Middle East. In the past six months, Americans have bought controlling interest in three banks, and bought into three others in Beirut alone. The U.S. bankers believe, in the words of one, that "the only thing worse than the Arabs investing in America is the Arabs deciding not to." His point: a vast mass of Arab capital pitching aimlessly from country to country and industry to industry could disrupt economies and financial markets throughout the West. In order to avoid that, stable...
Syrian President Hafez Assad last week reiterated his government's determination to recover all of its occupied territory. As reported by the Beirut daily Al Bayraq, he offered to repatriate the P.O.W.s "if Israel fulfills the Geneva Convention" and allows the repatriation of 170,000 refugees to the Golan Heights-meaning all of the Syrians who have had to leave their homes since the 1967 war. Assad further declared that Syria was committed to regaining the Heights "even if we fight 100 wars...