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Habib's task was to reconcile Israel's blunt demand that the Palestinians lay down their arms and flee the country with the P.L.O.'s plea for an "honorable surrender." On Monday the P.L.O. presented Habib with a set of requests. The most important was the retention of a "symbolic" military presence in Lebanon in the form of two armed brigades that would be commanded by the Lebanese army. The P.L.O. has similar arrangements in Jordan and Syria. In addition, the organization asked that it be allowed to maintain its own armed police force in the Palestinian...
Although the Israelis had been insisting that P.L.O. members lay down their arms before leaving Beirut, Begin made a midweek concession: the guerrillas could keep their side arms. "We'll let them keep their personal weapons," Begin told the Knesset. "We won't humiliate them. But they're going to leave Beirut, and they're going to leave Lebanon...
...government because it did not provide for the disarming of the guerrillas or for their expulsion from Lebanon. Habib returned to the National Salvation Committee on Wednesday with the U.S. plan for a settlement. First, both the P.L.O. and Israel would agree to a ceasefire. Second, the P.L.O. would lay down its arms, and the 25,000-man Lebanese army would enter West Beirut to collect the weapons and take charge of the city. (At week's end the U.S. vetoed a French-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution that did not require P.L.O. disarmament but called for an Israeli...
...Begin and other Israeli leaders have insisted for years that even if the P.L.O. did lay down its arms and be come a purely political entity, they would not recognize or deal with the organization they see as their obdurate enemy. As Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor emphatically put it last week, "Israel will not negotiate ever with the organization calling itself the Organization to Liberate Palestine from the Jews-ever." Israeli strategy currently focuses on dealing with the more moderate Palestinian elements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. That is the aim of Begin's limited...
Just when everyone thought it was safe to go back into bookstores, here comes the opening image of Peter Benchley's new novel: "The girl lay on the surface of the sea, looking into the water through a mask, and was afraid." This time, though, the menace is misleading. The author of Jaws has produced a simple story that is longer on charm than chills. Paloma, 16, lives on an island in the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California) and mourns her drowned father. For comfort, she spends her days skindiving at the secret place he had shown...