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...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...
...midweek set "a tentative goal of completion within 30 days." The Marines, he explained candidly, "have become a target in an area that is no longer under [Lebanese] government control." At week's end Weinberger presented to the White House a specific timetable, which Reagan approved, and the pullout was set to be completed by March...
...Chafee of Rhode Island: "That shelling is terrible, completely contrary to what we stand for." Congress, however, is unlikely to do much except complain when it reconvenes this week after an eleven-day recess. Democrats are thanking their luck that they never brought to a vote resolutions mandating a pullout of the Marines, since Reagan could have then blamed them for a retreat that he later had to order on his own. Nor do they see much point in framing new resolutions that might be "overtaken by events...
...attention from the immediate problem of Lebanon to his longer-range goal, negotiating a general Arab-Israeli peace based on an "association" of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza with Jordan. Reagan first welcomed Jordan's King Hussein to the White House and assured him that the pullout of the Marines from Beirut implied no weakening of U.S. support for Jordan against its unfriendly neighbor Syria. The President then invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who also was in Washington, to join him and Hussein at lunch...
Logistically, says a Marine officer in the Pentagon, withdrawing from Lebanon "is like peeling an onion in reverse." Action begins in the center, with the pullout of nonessential matériel and personnel, while an outer ring of rifle and machine-gun companies holds the compound perimeter until the end. In addition to the tons of equipment already moved out, about 250 men have been ferried to Navy ships off the coast, and more were scheduled to leave over the weekend. The Marines have deployed a 75-ft.-long pontoon bridge known as a Green-beach to carry truck-drawn...