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...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...
Behind the Soviet plan is concern that the region's deadly round of raid and retaliation could draw the U.S. and Russia into a showdown that neither wants. The Russians also want to protect their Arab clients from another military defeat, and have artfully shaped their proposal to tempt-and perhaps confuse-the U.S. as it changes administrations. For the first time, the Soviets do not peremptorily demand that Israel withdraw from its occupied territories before negotiations begin, as the Arabs have always insisted. Instead, the Soviets propose a package that would include Israeli withdrawal-to what lines...
...latest diplomatic battle took shape, the Israelis appeared to have made significant gains in their brief for the Beirut raid. A second wave of evaluation and editorial comment in the U.S. and abroad recognized that the U.N., in condemning Israel alone, had not been quite fair. Pope Paul VI told the head of a visiting Jewish delegation that his message of sympathy to Lebanon had been "misinterpreted" as deploring only one side of the violence. But in assessing the reaction, Israel did not reckon with another factor-Charles de Gaulle. He regards Lebanon, a French mandate until World...
ISRAEL did not get away without cost from its commando raid on Beirut airport. Through Lloyd's of London, Israeli insurance firms were underwriters for $50,000 worth of policies held by Middle East Airlines on planes that were destroyed. Thus, ironically, Israel will pay part of the nearly $18 million that MEA will collect. It is Lebanon's only cause for cheer. For the reverberations from the raid brought an internal crisis to the tiny nation last week, along with the prospect of being drawn against its will into the whirlpool of Middle East hostilities...
Fears of Invasion. All that seemed threatened last week in the wake of the Beirut raid. The already shaky government of Premier Abdullah Yafi toppled amid a crossfire of recriminations over the Beirut airport's lack of defenses. In the Premier's palace, President Charles Helou called in Rashid Karami, 47, who first won an international name as leader of a brief, Nasser-supported rebellion that brought U.S. Marines rushing to Lebanon in 1958. Karami has since served as Premier five times, the last time during the Six-Day War, when he ordered Lebanon's army into...