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Many Lebanese consider the Palestinians a disruptive element in this balancing act. There are 320,000 of them in the country, 97,000 living in 16 refugee camps. Using the camps as training areas, fedayeen have frequently mounted forays across the border into Israel. The retaliatory raids that invariably follow have so far killed an estimated 130 Lebanese in border settlements and brought Israeli jets sonic-booming over Beirut itself...
...incident could trigger a war even before the talks begin. During the negotiations, in deference to the Kissinger shuttle, Israel did not retaliate against the Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv's Savoy Hotel last month (TIME, March 17) in which eleven Israelis were killed. A major raid on fedayeen hideouts in southern Lebanon could lead to larger trouble, especially now that the P.L.O. and the Syrians have agreed to form a unified military command. Many experts worry about what might happen if the two U.N. forces were pulled out of the Sinai buffer zone or from the Golan Heights...
General Shlomo Gazit, chief of military intelligence, discounted Egyptian support for the fedayeen. "Let's be fair with Cairo radio," Gazit said in an unusual Israeli judgment. "The only statement by Egypt was very moderate...
...week's end, it was unclear how much the fedayeen raid had compromised the negotiating position of Sadat, who is eager for further peace moves but worries that making a separate deal with Israel would seemingly isolate him from the Syrians and the Palestinians. Syrian President Hafez Assad and the P.L.O. have both been putting pressure on Sadat to maintain a unified Arab front, which lately has shown some signs of strain. Two weeks ago the Palestinians publicly announced that they were sending a delegation of second-ranking P.L.O. executives to Cairo to discuss the Kissinger negotiations with Sadat...
TIME'S Jerusalem correspondent, Marlin Levin, and Reporter Daniel Drooz were both on the scene during the fedayeen raid and Israeli counterattack on the Savoy Hotel. Their report...