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...briefing of the Knesset's restive Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Sharon was pointedly reminded that the war was lasting far longer than the 8 to 24 hours he had orginally promised, and that its aims had shifted from simply clearing out a 25-mile buffer zone to besieging the capital and threatening a bloody assault. "Unlike other wars, this one was one war on the first day and it became a different war," charged Victor Shem-Tov, a leader of Napam, the left-wing ally of the Labor Party, who demanded Sharon's resignation. Outraged, Sharon shot...
When the Soviets resorted to heavy bombing, most of the guerrillas simply slipped away into another valley. I was less than half a mile from the Soviet position at Ab Darrah, surrounded by guerrillas who were in jubilant spirits. From a mountain overlooking the valley, we could clearly see the Soviet camp. It had a triangular perimeter, with six self-propelled howitzers lined up neatly in a row, and next to them eight BM-21 mobile rocket launchers, well known to military experts as Stalin organs...
...Proposal Regarding the Arrangements for the Future." Among other things, it called for an Israeli-Lebanese peace treaty, an end to the use of Lebanon as a terrorist base, Lebanese government responsibility for demilitarization and related agreements, the removal of all foreign forces from Lebanese soil, and a 25-mile-wide buffer zone on Israel's northern border to be policed by some form of international peacekeeping force...
...Syrian rebuff effectively ended a tenuous four-day truce between the two armies. Heading north from their fortified positions in Baabda, Israeli armor cut the Beirut-Damascus highway just west of Jamhur, less than a mile from Syrian tank and infantry posts. By seizing Beirut's surrounding hilltops, the Israelis choked off all main supply and exit routes for the Syrian and Palestinian units remaining in the capital...
...fuel to the joint U.S.-British airbase at Ascension Island. It also made KC-135 aerial tankers available to Britain, but these were never sent to the South Atlantic. Instead, the Royal Air Force used its own KC-135s for midair refueling of Vulcan bombers making the 3,800-mile trip from Ascension to the Falklands, while U.S. planes in Europe were reassigned to British NATO duties...