Word: pullback
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Fearful that the Israeli pullback would take the pressure off the Syrians to withdraw their forces, the Reagan Administration attempted to put the best face possible on Israel's decision. Thus the White House played host to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in Washington last week. The officials were rilling in for Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who one week earlier had unexpectedly canceled his own trip to the U.S. After more than 15 hours of talks at the State Department, Arens and Shamir met briefly with Ronald Reagan to offer publicly the assurance that...
...Gemayel arrived in Washington last week, in a desperate bid for U.S. help in rebuilding his shattered country, Israel took a step that could make that task virtually impossible. In a unanimous vote, the Israeli Cabinet approved a partial withdrawal of the country's forces in Lebanon. The pullback, which should be completed by October, could lead to what the U.S. most fears: the de facto partitioning of Lebanon between Israel and Syria, leaving Gemayel's government in control of only the area around Beirut...
Another sticking point is the P.L.O. desire for the Israelis to match its withdrawal with a pullback of their own, at least as far as Damur, twelve miles south of Beirut. U.S. experts say flatly that the P.L.O. is "dreaming" on that point. Said one State Department official: "It would be hard as hell to get Israel to move back that far because they don't trust the P.L.O. to go." The P.L.O. still wants to leave behind in Lebanon a political and military symbol of its former power. Israel is adamantly opposed to that. Moreover, the proposals being...
...summoned to the palace from the nearby residence of U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon. Strongly urging the Americans to get Israel to cease hostilities, the committee informed Habib that they had agreed to a Palestinian plan for saving West Beirut. The P.L.O. proposals reportedly called for 1) an Israeli pullback to a distance of five kilometers from the capital, 2) the reopening of the Beirut-Damascus highway and 3) the return of the guerrillas to Palestinian refugee camps in and around Beirut, with the Lebanese army assuming law-and-order duties in West Beirut. Habib was asked to present this plan...
...repossession of the Falklands to be followed by installation of a multinational administrative authority including the U.S., Britain, Brazil and Jamaica; 2) British sovereignty to continue for the time being, but with London considering at least a partial transfer of authority in the not too distant future; 3) a pullback of Argentine forces to be immediately matched or followed by a withdrawal by Britain of its task force; and 4) ultimately, direct negotiations between Argentina and Britain on the islands' long-term future...