Word: diplomatic
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...prepared to surrender their arms should be permitted to remain in Lebanon as part of the Palestinian refugee population. The key element for the U.S. and the Lebanese was not Israel's call for a total eradication of the P.L.O. but an end to what one senior U.S. diplomat described as "armed enclaves in Lebanon...
Though few specifics were known of the Habib negotiations in Beirut, one senior U.S. diplomat declared that the talks had reached the "rug merchant stage," implying that the various sides were haggling over the details of a P.L.O. withdrawal. By the end of the week, all parties were believed to have accepted the main principles of the U.S.-Lebanese plan. The P.L.O. realized that it must move its basic operations out of Lebanon, while the Israelis grudgingly accepted the idea that the Palestinians could retain a political office of some kind in Beirut...
...France sponsored two weeks ago calling for both Israeli and Palestinian withdrawal from Beirut. (The U.S. protested that the resolution did not call for a disarmament of the P.L.O.) The British government has roundly condemned the Israeli action in Lebanon, where, in the somewhat ironic words of one British diplomat, Israel has behaved "like a ruthless colonial power." By humiliating and destroying Arafat and the more moderate wing of the P.L.O., the British believe, Israel has provoked "a wholesale radicalization of the younger P.L.O. leadership...
...reaction of most Arab states to the Israeli invasion has been more muted than even the Israelis had expected. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was said by a Western diplomat to be "angry, frustrated and humiliated" over the whole affair. The presumption was that the Camp David peace process had contributed, in a marginal way, to Israel's decision to launch the invasion, since the agreement had neutralized Egypt and thus reduced Israel's need to worry about its southern border...
...American products for the pipeline to include equipment manufactured both by U.S. subsidiaries abroad and by foreign firms operating under U.S. licensing agreements. So angered were some European leaders that the first draft of the Brussels summit's communique, later toned down, was described by a senior British diplomat as a "virtual European declaration of economic war against...