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...AWACS in the arms sale. Israeli officials initially expressed little more than token opposition to the sale, but they have been convinced by the country's military leaders that AWACS in Saudi hands could lay bare all of Israel's military secrets to Arab enemies. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reacted to the sale announcement last week by giving U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis a memorable private tongue-lashing. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, Begin's major opponent in the June 30 Israeli elections, denounced the U.S. decision as "dangerous to the peace process and security of the region...
...militia and backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to try to get a ceasefire...
...Jerusalem, Haig met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin for 4½ hours and breakfasted with Shimon Peres and Abba Eban, leaders of the opposition Labor coalition. Haig found the Israelis warmly receptive to his strategic views. Said Begin of Haig's anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...
...contest was touted as a kind of election barometer. When the results came in last week, however, it appeared as if the barometer had gone haywire. "This means good returns for the Likud in June," said Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's ruling conservative coalition. Said Begin's challenger, opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres: "We are rather satisfied with the results...
...figures in Menachem Begin's Likud coalition have been as colorful as Ezer Weizman, 56, a onetime British Royal Air Force pilot who served for three years as Begin 's Defense Minister. He noisily resigned last May in a dispute over defense spending and the future of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Last week Israeli readers pored over selected controversial passages from Weizman's soon-to-be-published book, The Battle for Peace, a salty, 395-page memoir of the period straddling the 1978 Camp David accords. Excerpts...