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Even if the U.S. can somehow get talks about the Palestinian issue started again, they could all too easily get entangled with what now looms as a long and difficult set of negotiations to remove Israeli and Syrian forces from Lebanon and put that shattered country back together. "We have got to try very hard to maintain separate tracks" for the two sets of talks, says one U.S. official. Adds another: "If we get boxed in by Lebanon, we won't get to first base on a [general Middle East] peace settlement for a very, very long time...
...been fought in Pentagon memos, reports and meetings: the crucial difference this year was that the debate shifted to real battlefields, in Lebanon and the Falkland Islands. In both cases, the results were spectacular and unmistakeable. Israeli fliers in ultra-modern McDonnell Douglas F-15 planes shot down 40 Syrian planes in the first month of the invasion without losing a single jet. They also destroyed 19 surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a single battle, again with no Israeli losses...
While Israel's government fulminated against Reagan's proposals last week, it continued to consolidate its victory in Lebanon. The Israelis wiped out five more Syrian missile batteries in central Lebanon and attempted to pressure President-elect Bashir Gemayel into quickly signing a peace treaty. When Gemayel, a Christian leader who is on good terms with the Israelis and has sometimes been dismissed by Lebanese Muslims as an Israeli puppet, attempted to delay the negotiations on such a treaty until he has had a chance to strengthen his position in Lebanon, Israel's tough Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, spoke...
...parallel U.S. priority is to secure the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon. Last week President Reagan announced that he would send Morris Draper, a career diplomat who has been serving as Special Envoy Philip Habib's top deputy in Lebanon, back to Beirut to try to bring about the evacuation of all foreign troops. At the same time, Reagan presented Habib with a Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Habib will return to Lebanon to attend the inauguration of President-elect Gemayel later this month, but has no specific plans after that...
...Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon. The Arab League must take back the mandate to Syria to keep troops here. We shall then proceed to implement the withdrawal of Syrian troops...