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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...
...meantime, European protests against the pipeline sanctions poured into Washington-including one from Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo of Italy, a country with which the U.S. has no serious foreign policy disputes. As he read the plaints and monitored reports of renewed fighting in Lebanon, Haig grew increasingly morose. By midweek he was again thinking of resigning-not knowing that this was exactly what his adversaries at the White House wanted...
Secretary of State Haig had urged the British to be "magnanimous" in victory, but British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seemed unmoved. Magnanimity "was not a word I use in connection with the Falklands," she told a television interviewer at midweek. To give in "to an invader and an aggressor and a military dictator," she said, "would be treachery or betrayal of our own people." Only one thing could halt the British drive: an immediate Argentine decision to "withdraw within the next ten to 14 days...
There were other signs that the Polish people had not abandoned their yearning for freedom. At midweek about 1,000 farmers attended a special Mass in Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral to commemorate the official registration one year ago of Rural Solidarity, the now suspended agricultural union. Later, 5,000 Poles jammed the same cathedral for a Mass marking the 41th anniversary of the death of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the nationalist and anti-Soviet military hero who led Poland between the World Wars...
...midweek, however, Graham may have begun to sense that he was treading on dangerous territory. When delegates began accusing the U.S. of escalating the arms race, he removed his earphones. He listened intently when Lutheran Bishop David Preus from Minneapolis objected to the anti-U.S. bias of the conference. Thus when it came time for Graham, the conference's star attraction, to deliver his speech, he made some attempt to modify his stance. Graham inserted into his prepared text an appeal for freedom of religious belief: "I urge all governments to respect the rights of religious believers...