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...reportedly in the process of leaving West Beirut. Once that positive step is completed, the United States should spare no effort to get all foreign forces out of Lebanon in accordance with the Habib plan. By sending U.S. troops back to Lebanon where they will be bolstered by French and Italian contingents, President Reagan has already made this goal more attainable...
...decision to send its armed forces into Muslim-dominated West Beirut last week following the assassination of Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel. The Israeli action alarmed the U.S., which saw it as a violation of a promise the Israelis made this summer to U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib while he was negotiating the withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut. It frightened the Lebanese capital's Muslim population, infuriated the governments of other Arab states, and led to a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on the Israelis to withdraw from Beirut. But no one could have...
While Lebanon's leaders were struggling to settle the political crisis that followed Gemayel's death, the Israelis were busy taking over West Beirut, a goal long desired by Israeli Defense Minister Sharon but denied him by the peace talks led by U.S. Special Envoy Habib. The local Muslim population was alarmed at the Israeli advance: most of the Palestinian guerrillas were gone, and the French, Italian and American peace-keeping forces had also departed. Just before an Israeli column reached the U.S. embassy in West Beirut, the Israeli troops were ordered by radio to avoid shooting at the embassy...
...Israelis said it was necessary, after Gemayel's death, to prevent bloodshed. The Israeli Cabinet also claimed that 2,000 P.L.O. fighters had remained in the city in "blatant violation of the departure agreement." Declared Begin: "The terrorists cheated us. Not all of them got out. They deceived Philip Habib too. They left behind a considerable number of terrorists, together with their arms...
...parallel U.S. priority is to secure the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon. Last week President Reagan announced that he would send Morris Draper, a career diplomat who has been serving as Special Envoy Philip Habib's top deputy in Lebanon, back to Beirut to try to bring about the evacuation of all foreign troops. At the same time, Reagan presented Habib with a Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Habib will return to Lebanon to attend the inauguration of President-elect Gemayel later this month, but has no specific plans after that...