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...point, Sadat wanted to have all the permanent members of the Security Council meet in Jerusalem with the Geneva Conference members. It was difficult to dissuade him. I could not see any way to get Mao Tse-tung, Jim Callaghan, Giscard d'Estaing, myself and Brezhnev all to come. It was already too much to get the Palestinians and Syrians to sit at the same table with the Israelis...
...potential problem for the invaders was whether UNIFIL'S troops would try to stop them. Israeli soldiers were under orders not to shoot at the peace keepers. Callaghan had instructed his contingents, according to a U.N. report, "to block advancing forces, take defense measures and stay in their positions until their safety was seriously imperiled." Most of his soldiers apparently had no difficulty deciding that they were immediately "imperiled." The Israelis moving toward Beaufort Castle passed UNIFIL posts fortified only with ironic signs: U.N. ZONE: ARMED PERSONNEL DO NOT ENTER...
...seven peace-keeping forces established by the U.N. since 1956 have had mixed success in trying to prevent the renewal of hostilities between old enemies. The violators of the truces, says Lieut. General William Callaghan, the Irish commander of the ill-fated UNIFIL in Lebanon, "are thumbing their noses at the U.N. and what it stands for." One notable breakdown: from 1956 until 1967, a force helped maintain an uneasy calm between Israel and Egypt, only to be ordered out of Egyptian territory by President Gamal Abdel Nasser shortly before the Six-Day War. One notable success: since...
...James Callaghan, 70, Prime Minister of Britain from 1976 to 1979 and a Labor Member of Parliament since his defeat by Margaret Thatcher...
...Acheson Callaghan declined to return phone calls to his office...