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...most inopportune moment. Habib appeared to have worked out a complex agreement that would have provided for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Lebanon. That the Israelis seemed willing to jeopardize the Habib mission indicated to some dispirited American analysts that Jerusalem might actually prefer a bloody showdown to a diplomatic settlement that would preserve and possibly enhance the P.L.O.'s political status. Asked one U.S. official: "How can Begin bear to see [P.L.O. Leader Yasser] Arafat two months from now in Cairo, his apparatus intact, Mubarak as his ally, Saudi money behind him, and ready to talk...
...impending showdown constitutes a survival test for Saddam Hussein's leadership. On the eve of battle, he moves peripatetically among his soldiers and civilians, escorting Western visitors around Baghdad to convince them that he enjoys the full support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature...
Seeking to head off a bloody showdown in Beirut, U.S. officials scrambled to restore the short-lived Israeli-P.L.O. cease-fire that had broken down on June 13. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, studiously keeping out of the public eye, worked tirelessly all week in Beirut. He met with Lebanese President Elias Sarkis and other members of the proposed National Salvation Committee in the hope of devising a coalition government representing all major Lebanese factions. Habib's goal: to encourage a united stand for negotiating an Israeli withdrawal and dealing with the P.L.O. and the Syrians...
...Princeton's Falk and others doubt that the Reagan Administration, or any other, for that matter, would be willing to take the domestic political consequences of opposing Israel in a showdown. Predicted Ball: "I think what Haig and Reagan will do is have a conversation with Begin and then send him some more airplanes...
...Israelis besiege Beirut to await a truce-or a showdown...