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...does, the Israelis are beginning to view the Shi'ite opposition in southern Lebanon as an armed struggle of much broader scope than they had previously thought. Some Labor ministers in the government, including Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, are in fact in favor of completing the pullout earlier than this summer's planned deadline. That mood was reinforced early in the week when Israeli soldiers in an army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column...
...movement against the Israeli presence had exacted a mounting toll of casualties. Syria provided moral and logistical support to the Shi'ite resistance, finding this a way to fight Israel at little cost. One of the worst consequences of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as Israel's Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin put it last month, is that it let "the Shi'ite genie out of the bottle...
...resistance, or to withdraw, perhaps leaving its northern settlements vulnerable to attack. Though the majority of the Cabinet voted for withdrawal, regarding it in Rabin's words as "the right solution in a difficult reality," some Cabinet members remain firmly opposed to that action. Says Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in the national unity government: "We are withdrawing without securing Galilee...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin was in Washington last week to discuss his country's military and economic needs with President Reagan and top Administration officials. During the visit, Rabin won promises of $1.8 billion in U.S. military assistance but failed to change the Administration's stance that Jerusalem must first implement domestic austerity programs before increased economic aid can be considered. Later in New York he met with a group of editors and journalists, and next day talked with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan and Senior Writer William E. Smith. Excerpts...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin came to Washington last week to lobby for the military-aid portion of Israel's request (see WORLD). At a midweek meeting in the White House, he said that Israel is "taking real risks" by cutting its own defense spending to $2.6 billion, a twelve-year low. Reagan promised Rabin an additional $400 million in military assistance next year --about half of what the Israelis asked for. But Administration officials, led by Secretary of State George Shultz, want to hold off deciding on economic-assistance levels until Prime Minister Peres proves he is serious about...