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...occasional use of military force. Thus, the U.S. last week was massing naval power in the Middle East, possibly to retaliate for the attack on Marines in Lebanon-though whom to retaliate against, and how, was an unresolved question. Largely at the instigation of Secretary of State George Shultz, the U.S. was also trying to forge closer ties to Israel, seeking somehow to make use of Israeli military might as a counterweight to the troublemaking capacity of Soviet-backed Syria...
Embarrassing? The Secretary of State certainly thought so. Filled in by phone last week while traveling to Japan with President Reagan, an irate George Shultz immediately ordered a full-scale investigation. Of paramount concern was not just how the security breach occurred, but how far it went: the State Department could not guarantee that every scrap of secret information had been recovered...
...past months, however, Secretary of State George Shultz has become profoundly concerned about the growing influence of the Soviet-backed Syrians at a time when Israel seemed to be weakened by internal problems and divisions. His concern also had a personal dimension: he felt insulted by the manner in which Assad had harangued him during a meeting last July and betrayed by Syria's refusal to withdraw its troops from Lebanon after he had got Israel to agree to do so. The replacement of Ariel Sharon by Moshe Arens as Defense Minister and of Begin by Shamir has also...
...Shultz, however, faced opposition from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has frequently argued that closer U.S.-Israeli ties would imperil American attempts to strengthen relations with the Arab world. Nevertheless, at a meeting last month, Reagan sided with Shultz and signed National Security Decision Directive...
...camped for five years in the basement of the U.S. embassy and allowed U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to discuss American arms-control proposals on Soviet television. Washington responded with an offer to resume talks on cultural and consular exchanges, and Secretary of State George Shultz began considering a trip to Moscow. A summit meeting between Andropov and President Reagan even seemed possible until the Soviets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on Sept...