Word: raid
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Whether or not Begin had deliberately intended to embarrass the Administration, Reagan and his advisers were clearly not prepared for the Beirut raid. Israeli officials predictably objected when the U.S. delayed delivery of the F-16s* following the attack on the Iraqi reactor. Yet Begin and his Cabinet apparently assumed that the delay was only symbolic and saw no need to pay attention to U.S. concerns about Israeli military actions. They were more interested in demonstrating that there were no strings attached to their use of the F-16s. Indeed, late last week Israel condemned as "unfair" the latest delay...
Reagan and his aides did not expect the Israelis to apologize for the Baghdad raid, or publicly pledge strict new restraints on their military operations, when State Department Counselor Robert McFarlane met with Begin last week to discuss the use of American weapons. But the Administration was dismayed that the Prime Minister offered not even symbolic concessions in the five-hour session. Said Begin afterward: "If anyone should think that one sovereign country should consult another about a specific military operation to defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before...
...Israel ordered 75 of the modern fighters (cost: $18 million each), financed by longterm, low-interest U.S. loans, and has taken delivery on 53 of them. Four were held up after the June raid, and six more are now awaiting delivery...
...antiaircraft artillery. Small puffs of white smoke began to dot the sky as local militia groups fired in vain at the screaming jets. When the fury of the attack finally ended, two hours later, at least 200 people were dead and 600 injured, victims of the first Israeli air raid against the Lebanese capital since 1978. The target of the jets: specific Palestinian offices within the city...
...raid, the latest foray in the increasing warfare between Israeli forces and Palestinians, left Beirut in a state of shock. Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis called for a special session of the U.N. Security Council and summoned the American and Soviet ambassadors for separate talks. In the aftermath of the raid, a new wave of bitterness, directed not only at Israel but at the U.S. as well, swept through the Arab countries of the Middle East. In Beirut, newspapers referred to the attack as "the Apocalypse" and as "a massacre of Lebanese civilians," and described it as the bloodiest...