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...Marks' ignorance of international law, let me inform him that legally justifiable use of force according to the terms of Article 51 must be preceded by an "armed attack." No such "armed attack" from the Palestinian side had occurred since the July, 1981 ceasefire agreement which U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib had succeeded in negotiating between the PLO and the Israeli government. On the other hand, the U.N. Forces in Lebanon and Western journalists had reported several Israeli attacks and numerous other attempted provocations by the Israel forces (such as massing troops and equipment along the borders...
...Reagan announced that he wanted $60 million in emergency military aid to El Salvador. The President was also considering an increase in the number of U.S. military advisers in the country, now informally set at a maximum of 55, together with an expansion of their duties. Finally, an American envoy was dispatched to El Salvador to persuade the country's leaders to advance the date of presidential elections from March 1984 to some time later this year in order to dramatize the Salvadoran commitment to democracy. Said a White House official: "It could be just a matter of weeks...
Israel's preoccupation with its domestic maelstrom has momentarily turned attention away from another topic that has been consuming the country's passions and energy: the ever growing rift between Jerusalem and Washington. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib discovered for himself last week just how absorbed Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in his own troubles. When the peripatetic troubleshooter showed up in Israel to discuss a new U.S. plan for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, Begin found only 45 minutes for him. Said an Israeli official: "Nothing of substance came up at the meeting...
...factions in the war-torn country and in the Arab states whose support Lebanon badly needs, notably Syria and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the U.S. has opposed Israel's request for at least three early-warning stations in southern Lebanon, to be manned by some 750 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib is said to have told the Israelis that the proposed stations would make a "mockery" of the Lebanese demand for a complete withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces...
...that the buzz-word normalization on the agenda might have made a Syrian and P.L.O. withdrawal impossible. This in turn caused the Lebanese to wonder whether the Israelis, in trying to impose such a condition, were serious about the negotiations. So they welcomed the compromise agenda proposed by U.S. Envoy Morris Draper, who has attended the Israeli-Lebanese negotiating sessions from the beginning. Lebanese Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan said he was pleased with the agenda agreement but emphasized that his government still insisted on the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces, "which is our right." At the same time, however...