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...statement seemed to be significant. It implied that if only Israel would remove its forces from Lebanon as part of a withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian troops, and if Israel would drop its demand to retain some kind of military presence in a 28-mile-wide "security zone" along the Lebanese border, then the U.S. would guarantee the security of northern Israel. But even as the President was delivering his speech, White House aides were insisting that the address contained nothing really new and that U.S. policy had not changed...
...brother's place, was never as close to the militia as either Pierre or Bashir, and as President of Lebanon, Amin has been determined to assert the power of the central government over the whole of Lebanon. He cannot do much outside Beirut as long as the Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces occupy so much of his country, but last week he succeeded at least in unifying his capital city under a single command for the first time since...
...acquainted with both military habit and Ariel Sharon. In Israel's war of independence, he broke out of the hospital a week after being shot in the neck, in order to rejoin his platoon; during the 1967 war he commanded the audacious Golani Brigade, which seized seemingly unassailable Syrian positions. Since then, he has proved similarly dauntless in inquiries into episodes of possible army misconduct. As a former aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, Efrat also hesitated before joining the commission...
There was a grim reminder last week of other risks, those that go with the lingering Syrian and Palestinian presence in divided Lebanon. A car packed with explosives blew up in front of a Palestine Liberation Organization command center 30 miles east of Beirut in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley, killing at least 32 Syrians and Palestinians. An anti-P.L.O. group calling itself the Front to Liberate Lebanon from Foreigners claimed responsibility for the attack...
...request for at least three early-warning stations in southern Lebanon, to be manned by some 750 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib is said to have told the Israelis that the proposed stations would make a "mockery" of the Lebanese demand for a complete withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces...