One other sticky question was discussed by the Reagan and Begin teams during the Prime Minister's visit: What to do about the competing military forces entrenched in various sections of war-shattered Lebanon? TIME has learned that a plan for resolving the Lebanese crisis has been a subject of debate among high officials in Israel. Its authorship is unclear—for quite plausible reasons. So deep are the animosities involved that the Israelis might reject out of hand any proposal made by the Palestine Liberation Organization or its Syrian allies; the Palestinians and Syrians will have...
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