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Begin apparently did not ease U.S. worries about his inflexibility on autonomy issues. Before his arrival in Washington, a State Department official warned that "we will not send a high-level envoy [to the autonomy talks] unless Begin makes us feel it is worthwhile." After the summit talks ended, Haig announced that the U.S. will be represented only by its ambassadors to Israel and Egypt at the first new round of the negotiations. He said the U.S. might elevate its representation if there is progress on the unresolved procedural issues...
...Begin will arrive this week for a get-acquainted visit with Reagan at the White House. Begin will not only argue against the AWACS deal but will also urge Reagan to throw the prestige of the U.S. into fulfillment of the Camp David accords by sending a high-level envoy to the talks on autonomy for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which are scheduled to resume later this month. Secretary Haig, who wants to find a way to get the Palestinians involved in the talks, will decide on how the U.S. will be represented after...
Haig ousts an envoy who spoke up once too often...
...then, at week's end, President Reagan's special envoy Philip Habib suddenly announced in Jerusalem that a cease-fire had been established. Emerging from a talk with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Habib read a message from a scrap of paper: "I have reported to President Reagan that as of 13:30 hours local time, July 24, 1981, all hostile military action between Lebanese and Israeli territory, in either direction, will cease." Begin then followed with a comment of his own: "The government of Israel endorses the statement just made by Mr. Habib, the emissary...
Reagan, whose foreign policy calls for strong support of Israel, would clearly prefer to release the F-16s, assuming nothing else goes wrong. The President last week sent his special Middle East envoy, Philip Habib, to Jerusalem to press for a ceasefire in Lebanon. If the raids end, and Habib is not rebuffed by Begin-as he has been in recent shuttle diplomacy trips to Arab capitals-Israel presumably will get its F-16s. If extensive Israeli raids continue, Reagan may have to freeze deliveries of the fighters until things settle down...