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Reagan gave away the store and got nothing in return," said a White House critic of the Administration's Middle East policies. At a State Department dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a few guests even joked about raising the Star of David flag over the White House to signal the "Israeli victory...
...question from Secretary of State George Shultz was one that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir did not really want to answer. He remained silent, apparently in deep thought. "On that issue," he finally said, "I will have to consult my Foreign Minister." For a moment, the American negotiators said nothing. Then they remembered that Shamir, who had been Menachem Begin's Foreign Minister, had never relinquished that title. In the ensuing laughter, Shamir achieved his aim: the question was forgotten...
...Minister Yitzhak Shamir prepared to fly to Washington this week for separate talks with President Reagan. Gemayel will be seeking U.S. assistance in overcoming some of Lebanon's internal problems. Reagan will be intensely interested in helping him with that aim. After all, one of the Administration's biggest foreign policy problems at the moment, as the U.S. heads toward a presidential election year, is the presence of the 1,800-man U.S. Marine force in Lebanon. As for Shamir, he and Reagan will probably discuss the Administration's thoughts about "strategic cooperation" between...
...including the calling up of an estimated 100,000 reservists. Washington and Jerusalem both publicly assured Assad that they had no intention of attacking Syria, but a suspicious Assad surely noted that the U.S. and Israel had agreed to forge closer strategic ties and that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir would be visiting Washington shortly after Thanksgiving to discuss the details...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir will visit Washington later this month for the first time since he assumed office. High on the agenda: improving relations that became unusually strained in the last year of his predecessor Menachem Begin's stewardship. During a 40-minute meeting at his office in the foreign ministry last week, Shamir shared his views on the region's problems with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Harry Kelly. Excerpts...