Letters: Sep. 6, 1982

Beirut Ablaze

To the Editors:

The image of the Palestine Liberation Organization hiding behind the children of Beirut [Aug. 16] reinforces Golda Meir's words, "When peace does come, we will, perhaps in time, be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be more difficult for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons."

Charles Thaler New York City

Prime Minister Begin's blatant disregard of U.S. efforts to negotiate diplomatically the withdrawal of the P.L.O. from Lebanon is infuriating, especially since we have given Israel $7.15 billion...

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