Word: raid
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During a meeting in Washington on July 20 with Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Neumann reportedly denounced Haig's refusal to say that the Administration's delay in shipping F-16 fighters to Israel was punishment for the Beirut raid. Word of that disloyalty reached the Secretary, and Neumann was called in for a loud dressing down. The next day, Haig met privately with President Reagan and got permission to fire the ambassador. Last week Neumann, who had been in Saudi Arabia for only two months, announced his resignation "for personal reasons...
...diplomatic clout from the negotiations for the ceasefire by dealing, however indirectly, with both the U.S. and Israel. Neither country has recognized the P.L.O. as officially representing the Palestinians. The P.L.O. was also confident that the Israelis had suffered a serious propaganda defeat as a result of their bombing raid on Beirut, in which some 300 Lebanese and Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed and another 800 wounded...
...Beirut raid had indeed shocked the world, as the Israelis were worriedly acknowledging. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres flatly called it "a mistake." On the other hand, the Israeli raids on Lebanon called attention to the enormous arms buildup of the P.L.O. over the past six months. The new arms, paid for mainly by Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, include Soviet-made 122-mm howitzers and 130-mm field guns. These weapons have not yet turned the Palestinians into a serious threat to the Israeli armed forces, but they have made it difficult for the Israelis to knock out P.L.O. concentrations...
Residents of Renteria speak often of a raid in 1976 when scores of police, searching for terrorists, smashed shop windows, urinated in elevators and looted stores. Says the mayor of Renteria, Xabin Olaizola: "ETA will not disappear until there are profound guarantees of rights for the Basque people. It is better to take the gamble of having ETA. It is the guarantee that we can keep fighting for our rights...
...immediate dilemma was what to do about the ten F-16 jet fighters due to be shipped to Israel. At the beginning of the week, Reagan and his top aides flew to the summit in Canada with the matter still undecided. There they learned of an Israeli commando raid in Lebanon. That seemed to settle it. The following evening, Secretary of State Alexander Haig told reporters, "The President has decided to defer the shipment of F-16s to Israel. This matter remains under review...