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...summit bought time until U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib could return from consultations in Washington and this week resume his shuttle diplomacy between Middle East capitals...
...positions up and down the coast of Lebanon. The intensive raids had started the week before, and prompted two visits to Begin's office over the weekend by U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. The Ambassador passed along complaints from the State Department that Israel's actions were endangering Habib's mediation efforts. In a CBS interview, Begin responded that he had explained to Habib "an unaccountable number of times" that Israel intended to continue its "preventive operations against the P.L.O. terrorists...
...work with the Jordanians and the Iraqis to end the support that these two nations have been giving the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood, which is seeking to overthrow Assad's regime. One possible indication of the growing importance of the Saudis in working out an agreement is that Habib's first port of call will be the capital city of Riyadh...
...very fact that Assad had not yet backed down in the face of the Israeli threats and the Habib peace mission enhanced his standing with the Arab states, which were rallying to his support against Israel. The Arabs were still concerned about Syria's ties to the Soviet Union, which supplied the SA-6 missiles that were the cause of contention. At their summit meeting, Sadat said that he and Begin had a "full understanding," in the words of the Prime Minister, about the dangers of the Soviets' getting a firmer foothold in the Middle East...
Still, even though Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin repeated his pledge that Israel was putting no time limit on Habib's diplomatic efforts, there were fears that Israel might take advantage of his absence to attack the contro versial missiles. Instead, just 24 hours after Habib left, Israeli warplanes launched bombing forays against Palestinian positions, followed up with a naval raid that shelled the coast near Damur, south of Beirut, and landed commandos who ambushed guerrilla vehicles. The air strikes, the first in a month, hit Palestinian strongholds and refugee camps in and around the towns of Damur...