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President Ronald Reagan planned to discuss these compelling issues this week in Washington with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. As the crisis deepened, Washington labored last week to satisfy its recalcitrant Israeli ally while seeking to salvage its ties with Arab moderates. The Soviets watched from the sidelines, denouncing Israel and the U.S., as their own Middle East clients, the P.L.O. and the Syrians, took a humiliating drubbing on the battlefield. Although Moscow warned that its national interests were threatened by Israel's invasion, U.S. officials privately noted with relief the mildness of the Soviet reaction...
While serving as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East ambassador in 1979-80, Sol Linowitz spent countless hours trying to fathom the complex personality of Menachem Begin. As President Reagan prepared to confront Begin on the invasion of Lebanon, TIME asked Linowitz for his views on dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister...
...unlike the Israeli occupation troops, Syrian forces had been dispatched to Lebanon as part of an Arab peace-keeping contingent in 1976 with the approval of the local government. Sputtered an angry Syrian official: "We do not, I repeat, do not tolerate ultimatums from that mad dictator [Prime Minister Menachem] Begin...
...forum was the second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, a gathering in New York City that has drawn many heads of government. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin also addressed the session last week (an Arab-led boycott left many seats empty for Begin's talk). British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is expected on Wednesday. Some aides had billed President Reagan's speech as "the capstone of his various disarmament proposals," and indeed Reagan did repeat his suggestions for elimination of intermediate-range land-based missiles in Europe and a one-third...
...with previous surprises by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin-the destruction of Iraq's nuclear reactor in June 1981, the bombardment of Beirut one month later, the annexation of the Golan Heights last December-the Reagan Administration was presented with a distasteful decision and left to piece together a hasty solution to the regional turmoil. This time, the invading Israelis had simply swept aside one of Washington's most valiant efforts at Middle East peace keeping to date: the fragile, unwritten cease-fire between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, crafted just eleven months earlier...