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Throughout the 2½-week deadlock, Lebanese delegates had maintained that the talks should be aimed at securing a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, thus leading to a withdrawal of Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization troops as well. The Israelis were determined that the talks deal with "normalization" of relations between the two countries, and that they should also discuss arrangements for maintaining security in southern Lebanon, opposite the Israeli border. The government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel feared that any steps toward diplomatic recognition of Israel would upset Muslim-Christian relations within Lebanon and, worse, anger neighboring Arab...
...agreement was predictably negative. In Moscow, where he had spent two days getting acquainted with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat said that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were "worse than Camp David." In Nicaragua, where he was attending a meeting of nonaligned countries, Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said that his government would resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls...
...Lebanese were particularly anxious to get on with the peace talks. They feared that continued delays would increase the difficulty of getting the Israelis out of the country, not to mention the Syrians and the P.L.O. They were also concerned that the buzz-word normalization on the agenda might have made a Syrian and P.L.O. withdrawal impossible. This in turn caused the Lebanese to wonder whether the Israelis, in trying to impose such a condition, were serious about the negotiations. So they welcomed the compromise agenda proposed by U.S. Envoy Morris Draper, who has attended the Israeli-Lebanese negotiating sessions...
...report U.S. proposal was for a compromise between Israel's instence that the talks begin with normalization of relations between the two nations Lebanon's demand 60.000 Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian troops...
...Israel has insured the security of its borders from outside aggression for the foreseeable future. With the siege of Beirut, Prime Minister Begin closed a circle he began at Camp David. Begin has created peace--albeit a tenuous one--with Egypt, knocked out the Iraqui nuclear threat, decimated the Syrian air force, frightened Jordan and neutralized Lebanon. Never have Israelis been so safe...