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...could be more easily pressured than Israel by threats against its hostages, a Hizballah front group calling itself the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth vowed to kill Colonel Higgins unless Obeid was released. Israeli Cabinet officials convened an emergency meeting to formulate a counteroffer. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin proposed an exchange of Obeid and the estimated 150 Lebanese Shi'ites held in Israeli prisons for the release of the three Israeli soldiers and all the Western hostages...
Last week Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin laid out his unflinching quid pro quo for hostage trades in Lebanon. "We must have commanders and leaders of the terror organizations," he said. "Only when they are in our hands can we move ((them)) to exchange prisoners." Jerusalem has not hesitated to resort to kidnaping in the past. In 1983 Israeli troops in Beirut kidnaped the nephew of Ahmed Jabril, head of the P.F.L.P. --General Command and later the suspected mastermind of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Two years later Israel swapped the captured nephew -- and 1,150 Palestinians held...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir rounded up the usual expressions of ambiguity last week to deny reports that he had been talking to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Asserting for the umpteenth time that he never had and never would, Shamir did admit that he has been holding "get-acquainted" talks with a Palestinian from the West Bank identified with the P.L.O. But, he insisted, "there's absolutely no negotiation with the P.L.O., direct or indirect...
...offer was made in Jerusalem earlieryesterday by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in anannouncement broadcast on state-run Israel radio...
...whose salient points are at best ambiguous is dismissed as derisively as its earlier recognition of Israel's right to exist. The majority of Israeli Jews scorn as naive the possibility that the Palestinians may finally have decided to "settle" for something short of everything. How could they?, asks Yitzhak Shamir; the central problem has never changed: "We think the land is ours, and they think it is theirs...