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Next Watkins got his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs of Staff to approve a briefing for the President. On Feb. 11, 1983, they sat down with Reagan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The nominal agenda for the luncheon meeting was offensive weapons. Watkins took the opportunity to talk about the growing threat of instability. Then he made his pitch: the advances in defensive technology were so promising that the President should throw his weight behind a major research effort. McFarlane interjected: Are you saying that over time this could lead to deployable systems? Exactly, Watkins replied. McFarlane...
...purpose of el Baz's trip to Jerusalem was to discuss a Mubarak proposal for talks between Israel and a joint delegation of Jordanians and Palestinians. The Egyptian President, who announced his plan last week, suggested that the U.S. first talk with the Jordanians and Palestinians in Washington. If such an encounter proved fruitful, the Arab team would negotiate directly with Israel, possibly in Cairo. An international conference under United Nations auspices then would be convened to approve any bilateral settlement...
Mubarak's initiative grew out of an accord signed by Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein in Amman last month. That agreement, which el Baz helped draft, is an ambiguous document that calls for a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation to negotiate for Palestinian rights within "the proposed confederated Arab states of Jordan and Palestine." Though the accord does not specifically demand the creation of a separate Palestinian state, it offers little incentive to Israel to enter negotiations. Hussein and Arafat call upon Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territory--the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan...
Barely had the Amman accord been made public when P.L.O. leaders began issuing reservations. Farouk Kaddoumi, an Arafat confidant, insisted on the creation of a separate Palestinian state. Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, Arafat's spokesman, demanded that a unified Arab delegation, rather than simply a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team, negotiate with Israel. In a radio interview, Arafat said he appreciated Mubarak's efforts, but insisted on an international peace conference rather than bilateral talks with Israel...
...following editorial is a joint statement of the newspapers of the eight Ivy League colleges. The editorial has been endorsed by The Brown Daily Herald, The Columbia Daily Spectator, The Cornell Daily Sun, The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Dartmouth, The Daily Princetonian, The Yale Daily News, and The Harvard Crimson...