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...majority in the 120-seat Knesset, Begin included in his coalition right-wing and religious nationalist elements that could be expected to lobby strongly for such action. Begin was finally provoked, or so he told the Knesset, by external factors. One was Begin's feeling that U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib had failed to make further progress in defusing the seven-month armed stalemate between Israel and Syria over the presence of Syrian SA-6 missiles in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Another was the failure of last month's Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco...
...September, Gaddafi dispatched an envoy, Ahmad Shahati, to Washington with a personal message of reconciliation to Reagan. But U.S. intelligence officials had begun to receive reports that Libyan hit teams were out to kill Reagan. By the time U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Chapman narrowly missed being assassinated in Paris in November, Washington had made up its mind about Gaddafi's true intentions. As Haig put it: "I think it underlines the urgency of dealing with the problem [Gaddafi] in an effective, prudent, unequivocal...
...certainly scuttle the Saudi peace plan and eliminate any further peace overtures from moderate Arab states. That, in turn, would greatly increase the threat of a new Middle East war. Deeply worried that Lebanon's fragile cease-fire could soon crack, the Reagan Administration planned to dispatch Special Envoy Philip Habib back to the region after the Arab summit to seek a lasting truce...
...time when the question of nuclear weapons deployment on European soil threatens the alliance as never before, the respect Haig commands among European leaders may prove invaluable. But this potentially tremendous influence can be substantially diminished if foreign leaders question the American president's trust in his chief envoy...
...truce in Lebanon, the Administration hopes to replace a Saudi-mediated cease-fire with a more permanent arrangement to restore the authority of the Beirut government over its own country; that would involve withdrawal of Syrian troops and stringent restrictions on P.L.O. activity in the country. Reagan's special envoy, Philip Habib, will return to Beirut in mid-November to see what can be done in enlisting Saudi and Israeli support for such an agreement...