Word: pacts
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...calling for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in return for Lebanese concessions on political and security arrangements in the southern part of the country. The agreement never went into effect, because it was contingent on a simultaneous Syrian pullout from Lebanon that Damascus refused to accept. Nonetheless, the pact, achieved after heavy U.S. prodding of both sides, became a symbol to Gemayel's Muslim foes of what they saw as his subservience to Washington and Jerusalem. The U.S. and Israel stood by the agreement even after it was clearly doomed, believing that it was, at the very least, a symbolic...
Gemayel made no public announcement that he was scrapping the accord. He simply accepted an eight-point Saudi Arabian peace plan that includes abrogation of the May 17 pact; Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal then delivered it to the Syrians. Other points called for a ceasefire, a negotiated simultaneous pullout of Israeli and Syrian forces coupled with security guarantees to Israel, and a reconstitution of Gemayel's Christian-dominated government to give a much greater share of power to his Muslim opponents...
...only bargaining chip he had left was the May 17 Lebanese-Israeli accord. Shultz remains wedded to the pact, partly because he considers it his major diplomatic achievement; but most U.S. officials, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, have concluded that the agreement must be sacrificed. In their view, the choice is a Gemayel regime without the accord, or a less friendly successor without the accord. Gemayel remains unsure of how to jettison the agreement; according to U.S. diplomats, the Lebanese President is still telling Muslims he never ratified the pact, while reminding the Israelis and Christians that he never abandoned...
...from Lebanon proved unattainable. Secretary of State George Shultz made the mistake of accepting some vague assurances from the Syrians that they would leave Lebanon if the Israelis did too. After months of U.S. diplomatic shuttling around the Middle East, Shultz got his Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal agreement. But the pact was worthless because the Syrians, by now rearmed to the hilt by the Soviet Union, were not about to leave. They felt that the agreement legitimized the 1982 invasion by giving Israel special rights in southern Lebanon...
...young and inexperienced Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian, made any concerted effort to become President of all the Lebanese. Moreover, the agreement he had signed with Israel last May at Washington's urging drove a wedge between him and the Lebanese Muslims, who wanted no part of a pact with Israel. Nonetheless, Gemayel had one final chance. Last November he managed to assemble at Geneva the leaders of the principal Lebanese factions. The meeting went surprisingly well, but the Muslims and the Druze insisted that before anything else could be done, Gemayel must abrogate his agreement with Israel...