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...Shultz persuades Israel to withdraw from Lebanon, but complications arise...
...session stretched on longer, much longer, than expected. For four, five, six hours, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the members of his Cabinet huddled in Jerusalem and debated. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, recovering from a cold, waited patiently in his suite at the King David Hotel. Newsmen, clustered in the parking lot outside Begin's office, kept wondering: Was the length of the meeting auspicious? Or was it an ominous sign? At one point, Yuval Ne'eman, the Science and Development Minister, abruptly walked out, but it turned out that he had just learned that...
With a gracious nod toward U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, Shultz modestly noted, "I have the pleasure of helping to put a little icing on the cake. At any rate, we hope it is a real good cake." Later the Secretary gave Jerusalem some good news: President Ronald Reagan would now lift the ban imposed last summer on the sale of 75 F-16 fighter planes to Israel...
...some 40,000 troops in Lebanon. Although the accord deals only with Israeli troops, Jerusalem has insisted its pullout is contingent upon the simultaneous withdrawal of all Syrian and P.L.O. forces. Thus if Syrian President Hafez Assad refuses to remove his army, Israeli soldiers will stay in Lebanon indefinitely. Shultz flew to Damascus on Saturday, declaring on arrival that he wanted to discuss "ways of putting an end to the turmoil in Lebanon." After six hours of talks with Assad and other Syrian officials, he wearily acknowledged that the Syrians were "hardly enthusiastic" about the agreement...
...better or for worse, Shultz did not arrive with a plan to break the stalemated talks. Instead, he held a round of exploratory meetings in Jerusalem and Beirut, listening to both sides outline their differences. Then he shuttled between the two cities trying to reconcile the positions. The Secretary quickly learned that his presence alone would not resolve the disagreements. Conceded Shultz after the first round of meetings: "I still think it's doable, but it's going to be tough...