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Israelis celebrating the 37th anniversary of independence the day after the pullback were gratified, on the whole, that their country's most disastrous military conflict was drawing to a close. They could also rejoice that a possible "major disaster," as Prime Minister Shimon Peres put it, had not disrupted the festivities. Peres was referring to the Israeli navy's earlier sinking of a freighter that both Israeli officials and the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed had carried P.L.O. commandos. Their mission: to blow up a major target, believed to have been the defense ministry in Tel Aviv...
...third was seriously injured by a shell from an Israeli tank. The three men, all Lebanese citizens, had been photographing a burned-out car outside the village of Kfar Melki that was under attack by an Israeli raiding party. CBS sent off a protest to Israel's Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, for what the network said had been described by eyewitnesses as "an unprovoked and | deliberate attack by Israeli forces...
...into the arena was taken in February by Jordan's King Hussein, who wooed Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat into an ambiguous agreement to pursue peace with Israel. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is working to thaw the "cold peace" with Israel by exchanging emissaries with Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Mubarak later flew to Washington to make a personal plea to President Reagan for renewed U.S. involvement. Then, last week, the globe-trotting Egyptian leader joined King Hussein on a trip to Baghdad to enlist the support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Not since Reagan took office have Arab leaders...
...pattern of attack and counterattack was as relentless as it was bloody. Many in Israel consider the adventure in Lebanon a disastrous and costly mistake, and the national unity government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres is determined to get the I.D.F. out of Lebanon by summer. The I.D.F.'s orders, as Peres described them to the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee last week, are "to stay put not one minute longer than necessary," but he later added: "The terrorists will not dictate our steps...
...visit was shrouded in deepest secrecy, its details known only to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and a few top , officials. Early last week, Osama el Baz, Mubarak's closest adviser, boarded a helicopter in Cairo and flew to the Egyptian border. He was driven to Jerusalem, where he went directly to Peres' house. At the same time, Peres, who had been attending a Labor Party meeting, announced that he was not feeling well and left for his home. There the two men met for nearly five hours before el Baz slipped out of the back...