Word: disarmed
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...with a flag-waving crowd of 1,000 people, including some 500 Hispanic Americans; he sipped lemonade, munched on a guacamole taco, and expounded on his economic and Central American policies. In Phoenix, he told some 4,000 enthusiastic members of the National Rifle Association that "we will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family." Throughout the trip, Reagan looked and behaved very much like an undeclared candidate for reelection. As one of his aides put it, "The more we touch constituent bases, the more evident it is that he is running...
...departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization last August. Last week alone, masked gunmen killed six Palestinians near Sidon. Some 1,000 others have been forced at gunpoint to abandon their homes. Says a senior officer of the Lebanese Forces: "The Israelis' great mistake was not to disarm everybody in the south...
With such evidence it can hardly be argued that the Israelis are at all concerned with the sovereignty of Lebanon. Surely the Israelis realize that in order to reassert its authority the Lebanese Government must eventually disarm all private militias, yet the flow of arms continues. The consequences of this policy were witnessed earlier this month as Druze militiamen, partially armed and aided by the Israelis, defeated a Phalangist force, which had also been supported by the Israelis, in the town of Aley...
Once compelled to disarm Leoanon Israel acted not with brutal decisiveness but with the supreme caution of a nation abhorrent to war Guided by the most stringent of ethics. Israeli forces resisted the indecent trials of an ignoble foe. They never veered from a commitment to morality even when it hundred then immediate goals Conscience forced Israeli tank drivers to halt along routes where the PLO had placed Lebanese babies. It curtailed the assault of houses of worship where the PLO were strategically ensconced. And it prolonged a war of atrophy in Beirut where citizens held captive were spared...
...negotiate with outlaws." The Israelis did not press the argument, but on the day after the Lebanese army deployment, an Israeli tank patrol drove straight through a Lebanese army barricade in East Beirut, despite protests from the Lebanese soldiers on duty. Two days later, Israeli troops tried to disarm a French military convoy serving with the United Nations peace-keeping force in Lebanon...