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...would talk to Habib, who would talk to the Lebanese, who, finally, would talk to the P.L.O. The responses of the P.L.O. would work their way back to Begin and Haig through the same elaborate route. Said one top U.S. official: "It is just too early to predict the outcome???or even to judge which way things are going." The U.S. feared there was little time to get the P.L.O. to surrender its arms before the Israelis, contrary to pledges they had made from the start, took matters into their own hands and attacked Beirut. Said another Washington official: "They...
Certainly, if justice is not seen as prevailing by most Americans in the many trials still to emerge from the affair, a deepening cynicism and a rootless everybody-does-it syndrome of irresponsibility for individual acts may be Watergate's more lasting legacy. Whatever the outcome???most crucially including the fairness and thoroughness with which the President's political fate is resolved?millions of Americans will still consider the result wrong. Watergate thus is bound to leave a lingering bitterness among at least a minority of Americans...
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