Shortly after last month's massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich, Premier Golda Meir angrily announced a "farflung" war against Arab terrorists. But after a bloody raid inside neighboring Lebanon in which some 200 Arabs were killed the Israelis have been unusually restrained. The reason, according to some well-placed Israelis: two weeks ago a White House aide in a direct call to Mrs. Meir asked Jerusalem to refrain from disturbing the peace for the immediate future. The same message was passed to Israel's Washington embassy, which was told that Lebanon...
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