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...Troop grumbling about uniforms is hardly new but often justified. World War I doughboys suffered puttees, tight leg wrappings that all but cut off circulation. Their helmets offered minimal protection. In World War II, G.I.s complained about suffocating ponchos that kept out the rain but kept in perspiration...
Perhaps the best argument against retaliation is that it would upset the national reconciliation talks among Lebanon's factions. Before the country's warlords adjourned their meetings in Geneva two weeks ago, they agreed to "freeze" the Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal agreement signed last May and instead to focus attention on reshaping the Lebanese political structure, which is now tilted in favor of the Christians. During the recess, President Amin Gemayel is sounding out the U.S. and Arab leaders on how to amend the accord and still satisfy both Israel and Syria. This week he is scheduled...
...AGREE WITH the majority opinion that Syria is the main stumbling block to foreign troop withdrawal from Lebanon. We concur that Syria has little interest in promoting a settlement. And we too believe that the United States should home the Marines as soon as the Lebanese government can assume adequate control over the country...
...given this analysis, we are dismayed that the majority did not advocate what in our view could prove to be the only way out of the present stalemate. The United States should seek to directly involve the Soviet Union both in the troop withdrawal negotiations and, more broadly, in talks to help decide the future of the region...
...signs last week were mixed. Gemayel telephoned Syrian President Assad and invited him to send a delegate to the conference; it was the first formal contact between the two countries since last spring, when Gemayel earned Assad's enmity by signing a troop withdrawal accord with Israel. On the other hand, the Progressive Socialist Party, led by Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, issued a fresh set of conditions for the talks, including a complete halt to cease-fire violations and a lifting of the nightly curfew in Beirut. Jumblatt himself hinted that the talks might break up over a dispute...