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...dimensions of the problem have provoked alarm within the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. At a Cabinet meeting last month, Energy Minister Yitzhak Modai charged that the situation was "catastrophic." Last week, after four days of wrangling, the Cabinet unveiled a package of austerity measures designed to reduce the $1.6 billion budget deficit. It agreed to cut spending by $526 million, mostly in defense and welfare. It also decided to raise taxes on travel and certain government benefits...
...Syrians to withdraw their forces, the Reagan Administration attempted to put the best face possible on Israel's decision. Thus the White House played host to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Washington last week. The officials were rilling in for Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who one week earlier had unexpectedly canceled his own trip to the U.S. After more than 15 hours of talks at the State Department, Arens and Shamir met briefly with Ronald Reagan to offer publicly the assurance that had been worked out privately: the Israeli pullback to the Awali...
...could not be sure the attackers were Jewish. They said that they would also investigate other possibilities-equally without proof: the masked gunmen were Muslim fundamentalists or members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who might have attacked the college to embarrass Israel and exacerbate Arab-Jewish tensions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin termed the attack a "loathsome crime." Brigadier General Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, coordinator of Israeli operations in the occupied territories, declared, "We will spare no effort and do whatever has to be done in order to find the murderers...
...Israeli decision came less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Menachem Begin canceled a trip to Washington planned for this week. The meeting was to have been the first between Begin and Ronald Reagan since June 1982. It would no doubt have given the President an opportunity to express his reservations about Israel's redeployment plans. Begin, who has been in poor health, cited only "personal reasons" for his decision...
Edmund Muskie, who was then Secretary of State, complained to Israel about the arms sales, but the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin responded that it had sold Iran only $300,000 worth of spare tires for F-4 fighter planes. It promised, in any event, to stop all future military sales. Yet, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Israel was also selling tank parts and ammunition to Iran. In 1981, after the release of the U.S. hostages, Israel resumed its military sales to Iran without Washington's approval...