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...confirmed that he had agreed "in principle" to contribute a contingent of servicemen, most probably about 1,000 Marines, to a temporary, multinational force that would oversee the withdrawal of some 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut. At week's end five ships from the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet, with 1,800 Marines aboard, were poised just over the horizon, about 60 miles from Beirut...
...tremors around the world. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev fired off a letter to Reagan, warning vaguely that any move to put U.S. troops in the Middle East would influence Soviet policy toward the area. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat publicly scoffed at the U.S. offer, saying, "The weapons and the fleet that helped kill our women and children cannot protect us," although in private his aides hinted that they would welcome U.S. assistance in arranging a safe and orderly withdrawal of Palestinian forces from Lebanon to other Arab lands. In Washington, some members of Congress voiced doubts about the wisdom...
...have agreed in principle to contribute a small contingent of U.S. personnel, subject to certain conditions," said the President in a Los Angeles speech to a gathering of legislators from 13 Western states. A battalion of 1,800 Marines, currently sailing with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, was ordered to prepare for possible deployment as part of a multinational peace-keeping force. Under the conditions laid down by Reagan, troops would be dispatched only if his special envoy, Philip Habib, can work out a peace arrangement among all the parties involved, and if at least one other nation, notably...
...Yeah," he says as his face lights up. "Remember when we pulled the fence down at People's Park and a fleet of cop cars screeched up and started shooting rubber bullets at us?" He notices I'm staring out the window...
Foreign correspondents had their own difficulties. As the Israelis mobilized, the British Guardian's Eric Silver was dictating a story by phone to Fleet Street when a voice on the line politely asked whether his material had been submitted to the military censors. When Silver said no, his line to England suddenly went dead. One TV correspondent told of the Israel defense forces flying correspondents' material from the Lebanon front back to Israel, then confiscating the film at the airport in Tel Aviv...