Word: habib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Habib had yet to wrap up the how and the when, and negotiations were going on under the gun, literally. Prime Minister Menachem Begin repeated his government's threats that Israel would mount an all-out assault on the Lebanese capital to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization if a way could not be found for the P.L.O. to leave peacefully. At the same time, in an obvious attempt to increase the pressure on the P.L.O., Israeli forces bombarded the beleaguered city and its southern suburbs for seven straight days before Habib managed to arrange still another...
...Washington hoped. That was the Israeli Prime Minister's insistence on an "unequivocal commitment" from the P.L.O. to evacuate its 6,000 guerrillas, who are sealed off in West Beirut along with 500,000 residents of the city. Indeed, negotiations were already un der way between Habib, the Lebanese government and the P.L.O. to devise a formula for relocating the guerrillas and their families to Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan...
Shamir insisted that a reply to Israel's demand that the P.L.O. leave Lebanon must come directly from Habib rather than in a statement by the Arab League. But Begin later told the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Israeli Knesset that the P.L.O. was apparently agreeing to evacuate the city. Despite earlier P.L.O. assurances to Habib to that effect, the Israelis had feared that the P.L.O. was stalling for time to build up its own defenses. But Begin also told the committee that, while he favored a negotiated settlement, many loopholes in an agreement would have...
Although Jerusalem denied the report, diplomatic sources in Lebanon said that Habib had in fact already won Israeli acceptance of a tentative plan for the P.L.O. to be evacuated directly to Syria, then dispersed to Egypt, Jordan and Iraq...
...Habib presented the outline of the proposal to Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis and Prime Minister Chafik Wazzan after the U.S. envoy had returned from his swing through the Middle East. A P.L.O. evacuation plan had been drawn up early last week by Colonel Johnny Abdo, head of Lebanese army intelligence, and Hani al Hassan, Arafat's political adviser. The P.L.O. was pleased with the Habib proposals, even though the Palestinians had to forgo the staged withdrawal they preferred by way of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and thence to Syria...