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...Reagan reaffirmed his policy against talking with the P.L.O. until it recognizes Israel's right to exist, the Administration is fervently hoping that Begin will make a gesture of accommodation at next week's autonomy talks. Reagan may also finally get around to appointing a special U.S. envoy to the talks to ensure that the negotiations will have a better chance of succeeding by next April. That is when Israel is scheduled to return to Egypt the last slice of the Sinai, the legacy of a man whose violent removal from the Middle East may make future progress...
From their seats, Illinois Senator Charles Percy and Sol Linowitz, Carter's former Middle East envoy, peered forward, curious about the Presidents...
Lebanon had been relatively quiet since July 24, when U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib helped to arrange a de facto cease-fire between Israel and the P.L.O. But last week, in addition to the bombings, there were other ominous rumblings. Israeli jets flying routine reconnaissance missions over Beirut and southern Lebanon were fired upon by the P.L.O., and Israeli military officials charged that the Palestinians were moving new military equipment into the south in violation of the ceasefire. The cauldron of Lebanon seemed set to begin boiling yet again...
...German envoy, Achenbach, speaks blandly of relations with French officials, concerned, even now, with bureaucracy and results rather than responsibility. A collaborator, Combelle, recalls without guilt his admiration for German fascism-"I did not believe in natural equality, but that the best should win...What did the Germans mean to a man like me? I won't make myself ridiculous by telling you that the army was correct...
...that the Israelis might reject out of hand any proposal made by the Palestine Liberation Organization or its Syrian allies; the Palestinians and Syrians will have no truck with anything that originates in Jerusalem. Israeli sources claimed that the plan had been proposed by Philip Habib, the special U.S. envoy to the Middle East. American diplomats insist that the U.S. has not put forward a comprehensive proposal. As outlined by Israeli officials, perhaps as a trial balloon they hope to shoot down, the plan involves three stages of diplomatic and military movements...