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...P.L.O. and moderate Arab nations. If the P.L.O. could be crippled as a military power, he reasoned, Saudi Arabia and Jordan might feel less inhibited in joining Egypt in the Camp David peace process. These heady ideas soon disappeared. Instead of seeking a general settlement of the Palestinian problem, Habib had to concentrate all ot his efforts on working out an evacuation plan for the trapped P.L.O...
Nonetheless, if the U.S. produces a peaceful resolution of the immediate crisis it will strengthen its position as the dominant superpower in the area. By week's end Habib seemed to have the negotiations back on track. Said one hopeful U.S. official: "What we had worked out by Tuesday is still there, and pointing toward a settlement...
...Habib's mission fails, it will be a serious blow to American prestige. Israeli attacks on West Beirut reinforced the impression that the U.S. is a helpless giant that can neither influence Israeli actions nor come to grips with events in the Middle East. Signs of U.S. ineffectualness in the current crisis have been conspicuous since the day in June when Reagan sent a well-publicized message from the Western economic summit meeting at Versailles urging Begin not to invade Lebanon. Begin sent his troops in the next...
...ceasefire, some 10,000 Lebanese streamed out of the target area, wending their way through streets filled with debris and smoldering ruins, and found refuge in East Beirut or outside the city. The Israeli attacks, which aroused wide opposition around the world, came just as U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib reportedly was on the verge of working out an agreement for the Palestine Liberation Organization to evacuate Lebanon. The assaults also angered Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and thus jeopardized any resumption of the Camp David talks with Israel in search of a long-term settlement of the Palestinian...
...fighting jeopardized anew the negotiations led by U.S. Special Envoy Habib to get the P.L.O. peacefully out of the country. Clouding the diplomatic proceedings from the beginning has been the basic mistrust between the Israeli and the P.L.O. leaders, a wariness that has made the talks difficult and sporadic fighting all but a certainty. P.L.O. fears have been reinforced by the fact that there have been at least four attempts on Arafat's life within the past six weeks. Two operations centers were bombed shortly after Arafat visited them. Last Friday an Israeli jet attacked an eight-story apartment...