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...reconnaissance flights, which have already resumed. That view is mistaken, according to some military experts familiar with the Middle East. "I'll be surprised if the attack managed to do much lasting damage to Syrian antiaircraft capabilities," said one analyst, who predicted that the Syrians would soon redeploy their batteries. That raises not only the possibility of further strikes from U.S. forces but also the question of how such strikes should be carried...
...Andropov. He did not want to let the Soviet leader, as he said at one point, "outflexible" him. On Aug. 26, Andropov played another card. Not only would the Soviet Union reduce its European SS-20s from 243 to 162 but it would "liquidate" the remaining 81 rather than redeploy them in Asia...
...Begin government's decision to pull its troops back to a more secure line at the Awali River, 17 miles south of Beirut, that helped precipitate the latest fighting. With the situation in Lebanon deteriorating, the U.S. had asked Begin to delay his government's plan to redeploy Israeli forces to the Awali. In one of his last acts as Prime Minister, Begin agreed to the Reagan request; in return, he received some harsh criticism from one of his colleagues. At the Cabinet meeting at which Begin announced his plan to resign, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon...
Essentially, the U.S.-Israeli talks boiled down to a series of reassurances. Aware that the Begin government would not back away from its decision, the Administration did not attempt to persuade the Israelis to forgo or postpone their plans. In return, Arens and Shamir agreed to redeploy Israeli troops in an orderly manner, coordinating with the Lebanese army so that it could move into the newly evacuated areas. Said a State Department official: "The Israelis assured us that they have no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and that the projected redeployment is in no way intended to contribute to divisions...
...connection. Washington gained an influential friend in United Nations councils dominated by the Third World, where American policy has frequently been scorned. What is more, the friendship with China reduced the defense burden of the U.S. in East Asia. Says a senior State Department official: "We were able to redeploy forces from that region to other parts of the world...