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...buffer zone along the Israeli border in southern Lebanon, with the Christian Phalangists in the north. The combined Christian forces, in Sharon's scheme, would take over the central government and restore what Sharon calls "a free Lebanon." This government would presumably get the Syrians to withdraw...
...veto, against 14 yes votes, on a third text that threatened sanctions unless the Israelis withdrew from Lebanon. The vetoed resolution, explained U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, was "not sufficiently balanced." Summing up the U.S. attempt at evenhandedness, a State Department spokesman declared: "Israel will have to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, and the Palestinians will have to stop using Lebanon as a launching pad for attacks on Israel...
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Yehuda Blum told the Security Council last week that his country's forces would not withdraw from Lebanon until "concrete arrangements" were made to "permanently and reliably preclude all hostile action against Israel's citizens." In practice, that would mean the establishment of an effective buffer zone in southern Lebanon to prevent the return of P.L.O. forces capable of shelling settlements in northern Israel. But Israel's stated intentions concealed some far more ambitious goals. Ideally, Jerusalem would like to restore sovereignty to an independent-and friendly-Lebanese central government. That...
...losses did not affect Britain's resolve. In the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week insisted that "if the Argentines tell us that they are prepared to withdraw, we shall enable them to do so with safety, dignity and dispatch." Otherwise, she said, "we shall now have to take back by force what the Argentines would not give up." Even Britain's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor...
Habre's victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...