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...afraid that Israel's leaders of today have taken violence as their birthright." In the House of Representatives, eight members introduced a resolution demanding an investigation into a possible Israeli violation of American laws prohibiting foreign countries from using arms purchased from the U.S. for offensive purposes. In Bonn, Haig announced early Thursday evening that he would not accept Begin's invitation to go to Jerusalem, because the Israelis had "not evidenced sufficient flexibility...
...Thursday night, presumably after meeting with Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and other key Cabinet members, Begin called Haig in Bonn to assure him that the Cabinet would approve a unilateral decision the next morning. It did, and the cease-fire took effect at noon on Friday. But Israeli officials made it clear that it applied only to the Syrians, who also agreed to halt their fighting. The Israelis said they would continue cleanup operations against the P.L.O. in Lebanon. Only on Saturday did Jerusalem announce that it would observe a similar cease-fire toward the Palestinians...
...nodded, literally, in the Vatican, but from then on moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European caricaturists...
...American, the President conveyed reassurance that the U.S. remains committed to the NATO alliance and is genuinely seeking peace and arms reduction in negotiations with the Soviets. But Reagan encountered much skepticism from the burgeoning European "peace" movement; Josef Leinen, one of the organizers of an antinuclear rally in Bonn, challenged the President to prove that he was not merely mouthing "empty disarmament slogans." In face-to-face discussions with European political leaders, Reagan reinforced personal rapport but gained little more agreement on policy than had existed before he left Washington...
...hosts were miffed too. In Rome, Spadolini was kept by U.S. security men from going through the tight cordon outside the Palazzo Chigi until Italian police could finally inform them that the gentleman they were holding up from a meeting with Reagan was the Prime Minister of Italy. In Bonn, U.S. security men annoyed the Germans by insisting on inspecting the carbines of an honor guard welcoming Reagan to make sure the guns were not loaded. The security obsession was not confined to Americans. Outside Bonn, West German security agents searched the cars of the U.S. Secret Service men guarding...