Word: respondents
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...purpose of the journey, said National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, is to "respond to the new realities in foreign policy and the appearance of new and important countries in the world." It was a windy way to describe the 15,000-mile four-country tour that Jimmy Carter begins this week. Actually, there was little else to say, for the very good reason that nothing much is expected from the seven-day excursion beyond some small gains in good will and a little broadening of the presidential horizons...
There had never been any doubt that Israel would respond hard to the latest Palestinian terrorism. Premier Begin had vowed as much when he gravely told the Knesset early last week: "We shall do what has to be done. Gone forever are the days when Jewish blood could be shed with impunity. The shedders of innocent blood shall not go unpunished...
...Israeli intelligence made contact with Christian Lebanese leaders in the north and asked them not to seize the occasion of the fighting in the south to launch new attacks against the Syrian army and Palestinian fighters in Beirut and the north; if they did, it might force Syria to respond to the Israeli invasion. The Syrians were disinclined to do so, since their forces are no match for the Israelis', but at week's end Syria sternly demanded that Israel withdraw from Lebanon. All week long, Israeli missile boats delivered military supplies to Christian forces in northern Lebanon; they returned...
...times, the Palestinians almost seem determined to keep that cause lost. A year ago, President Carter first spoke of U.S. support for a Palestinian "homeland." This was a considerable achievement, the best the Palestinians have ever had in 30 years of warfare, but they failed to respond. The quid pro quo in American eyes was Palestinian recognition of Israel's right to exist, something that Arafat and other "moderate" Palestinian leaders wanted to do. However, there was too much pressure to the contrary from more radical P.L.O. members like Marxist George Habash...
Toward the end of September, they sent me a message saying that they would be willing to see me in Moscow on Oct. 11. Although I had had enough (anyone in my position would have lost his patience as a result of their deliberate failure to respond for almost half a year), I didn't show that I was upset in the least and did leave for Moscow. At the talks I repeated the words I had said to them in March: "I don't mind, my friends, if you keep me one step behind Israel [in armaments...