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...arms, and the 25,000-man Lebanese army would enter West Beirut to collect the weapons and take charge of the city. (At week's end the U.S. vetoed a French-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution that did not require P.L.O. disarmament but called for an Israeli withdrawal from Beirut.) Third, the P.L.O. would move out of Beirut, either to their camps south of the city or to centers in the north near Tripoli. The Israelis, meanwhile, would pull back a few kilometers. Once these steps had been taken, Habib would begin the complex negotiations to establish a stable...
...Palestinians would withdraw to their camps and be subject to Lebanese law and sovereignty. Our forces would be governed by a specific formula whereby they would be considered as allied to the Lebanese army. Habib and the Israelis rejected all these positive suggestions. They insisted on imposing complete surrender, which we will not accept, not even consider, under the circumstances...
...diplomatic problems in Lebanon but also to help create the international peace-keeping force. Said a top U.S. official: "We still believe Begin means it when he says he wants to hold not a centimeter of Lebanese soil. But we also know damn well that the Israelis will never withdraw until they are satisfied with the force that fills the vacuum...
Saunders warned that Begin is probably prepared to occupy Lebanon for as long as it takes to see that his terms are met. If so, said Saunders, "the U.S. should be tough with the Israelis. They should be told that if they don't withdraw after a reasonable transition period, we will not support them. At all. Period. At the same time, we should work to see that the U.N. peace-keeping force is a credible one and that the factions in Lebanon come together...
After discussing strategy with Phalangist leaders over tea at Baabda's town hall, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon issued a call for Syria's 85th Brigade to withdraw from the Beirut vicinity and join the bulk of Syrian forces in the Bekaa Valley to the east. Damascus abruptly rejected the demand, insisting that unlike the Israeli occupation troops, Syrian forces had been dispatched to Lebanon as part of an Arab peace-keeping contingent in 1976 with the approval of the local government. Sputtered an angry Syrian official: "We do not, I repeat, do not tolerate ultimatums from that...