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Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin was in Washington last week to discuss his country's military and economic needs with President Reagan and top Administration officials. During the visit, Rabin won promises of $1.8 billion in U.S. military assistance but failed to change the Administration's stance that Jerusalem must first implement domestic austerity programs before increased economic aid can be considered. Later in New York he met with a group of editors and journalists, and next day talked with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan and Senior Writer William E. Smith. Excerpts...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin came to Washington last week to lobby for the military-aid portion of Israel's request (see WORLD). At a midweek meeting in the White House, he said that Israel is "taking real risks" by cutting its own defense spending to $2.6 billion, a twelve-year low. Reagan promised Rabin an additional $400 million in military assistance next year --about half of what the Israelis asked for. But Administration officials, led by Secretary of State George Shultz, want to hold off deciding on economic-assistance levels until Prime Minister Peres proves he is serious about...
...moderate Arab states, as are proposed U.S. arms sales to those countries. Saudi Arabia is scheduled to buy 40 more American F-15 fighter jets, along with missiles and tanks, a sale the Administration intended to announce during King Fahd's visit to Washington next week. But after Rabin argued that the planes would shift the region's military balance, the State Department announced a postponement and a "comprehensive review" of all arms sales to the Middle East...
...area by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization that were cited as Israel's justification for the invasion of 1982, code-named Operation Peace for Galilee. Government officials also explained that the withdrawal might free Israeli forces for more effective action in the border region. Declared Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "No terror organization will be able to establish itself as the P.L.O. did in the south of Lebanon. We will not allow such a thing, even if it means bombing from the air or entering Lebanon for limited military operations...
Hope for southern Lebanon There is no such thing as a good solution to the Lebanon question. The most we can wish for is to make the best of a bad job." Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered that bleak but accurate observation last week amid small, conflicting signs that the eventual withdrawal of 22,000 Israeli troops from southern Lebanon may be growing closer. At the United Nations, it was announced that Israeli and Lebanese military delegations will hold their first meeting this week to discuss the pullout. In Jerusalem, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern...