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...Israeli-Lebanese troop-withdrawal negotiations remained stalled, there were signs that the Israelis and their surrogates were busy achieving one of their negotiating goals by force of arms. The Israelis have said that they want a 28-mile-wide zone along the Lebanese border with Israel to be set aside as a special security area, and that they expect it to be run either by Israeli military commanders or by Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer who has controlled an area of southern Lebanon since 1979 with Israeli backing. Last week the Israelis transported Haddad and many...
...withdrawal from Lebanon were under way, it might be said that last week's soul searching marked an ending of sorts to the most unpopular war in Israel's history. But this is not true. The troop-withdrawal talks remain deadlocked, and relations with the U.S. are as strained as they have ever been. Nor is it clear whether the mere transfer from one Cabinet post to another of Ariel Sharon is an appropriate response to the recommendations of a commission that was investigating a terrible crime. Presumably Menachem Begin has been somewhat weakened by the report...
Administration officials privately expressed the hope last week that with Sharon out of the Defense Ministry, Begin would prove more flexible on both the troop-withdrawal talks and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "Sharon was the most serious obstacle to everything this government has been attempting to do," said a Government expert on Middle East affairs. "He had his own agenda, his own foreign policy." From Washington's viewpoint, it would also be best if Begin did not call elections in the foreseeable future because an interim government would probably only mark time, and thus precious months...
...Iranian offensive, the fourth launched by Tehran since last July, was apparently aimed at the Iraqi city of Al Amarah. Seizure of the town would enable Iran to intercept supply and troop movements between Baghdad, the capital, and the southern port city of Basra. By midweek, Tehran Radio was claiming that advancing forces had "liberated" 120 sq. mi. of Iranian territory from Iraqi forces since the attack began. An Iraqi military spokesman was contending that the attackers did not gain "one inch of Iraqi territory...
...seem able to win the war either. The Iranians are fighting with a hodgepodge of equipment bought from many nations and are suffering from a lack of spare parts. Deep divisions are said to exist between the regular military and the poorly trained but highly indoctrinated Islamic Guards. Troop morale is waning, and some expatriates say absenteeism and desertions are rife. Said a U.S. analyst in Saudi Arabia last week: "The gulf war has become a terrible replay of World War I, in which each side launches a terrible offense only to be beaten back by an even more formidable...