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to exchange ideas with
them." This is a step away
from direct U.S.-PLO con-
tacts. Events of the past
few days tend to bear out
the trade-off theory.
The centrality of the PLO
in the Administration's
Mideast policy was in-
dicated by American Am-
bassador Richard Parker's
comments in Beirut and the
State Department's studied
refusal to name the PLO as
the perpetrators of the re-
cent rash of bombings in Is-
rael even though the terror-
ist organization has itself
boasted publicly of the
events, promising more of
them.
Most Beirut newspapers
and some unidentified "leg-
islators" quoted Parker as
saying that Carter has sent
a letter to Premier Mena-
hem Begin of Israel to stop
Israeli support of Christians
resisting the PLO's on-
slaught in southern Leba-
non and strongly opposing
Israel's .-West Bank settle-
ment policy. Parker was al-
so reported as saying that
Carter, in a letter to Presi-
dent Hafez Assad of Syria,
asked him for "self-re-
straint" in view of Begin's
statement
that Israeli artil-
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lery was helping the Leba-
hese Christians.
According to information
received here, Parker was
quoted as stating that the
message Carter sent to
Begin last week contained
an American "demand that
Israel restrict its military
operations along the Israeli-
Lebanese border" and that
it contained a "strong
American protest" against
the settlements.
The State Department ac-
knowledged the letters
Were sent but refused to dis-
cuss them or the remarks
attributed to Parker. It re-
ferred queries about the let-
ters to the White House
where Presidential spokes-
men said they would not re-
veal Presidential corre-
spondence. No one. how-
ever. denied Parker's com-
ments.
Beginning
with
last
Friday, a series of curious
statements and devel-
opments ensued. Having
fired a double-barreled
blast at Israel last
Thursday for Israel's move
to establish three new civil-
ian settlements on the West
Bank as "unilateral illegal
acts" and assailing Israel's
policy of providing the West
Bank and Gaza Strip with
services equal to that avail-
able in Israel. the State De-
partment refused to re-
spond to Israeli statements
rejecting the U.S. reaction.
In fact, the White House
said that the U.S. and Is-
rael are not on a "collision
course" and that the U.S.-
Israel discussions on the
West Bank should not be
seen as destroying their
relationship. Presidential
News Secretary Jody Pow-
ell, who made the state-
ment in response to report-
er's questions about the con-
sequences of the discord
over the new settlements
and the equalization policy,
said, "We expressed
through diplomatic chan-
nels our concern, namely
about recent steps in the
West Bank. -
Then, on Sunday, when
the Israeli Cabinet issued a
statement rejecting as "un-
justified" the U.S. criticism
of Israel for establishing
the three new settlements
and declaring that the gov-
ernment of Israel "cannot
accept the assertion that
Jewish settlement in the
land of Israel is regarded
is illegal," the State De-
partment commented that
it had nothing to add to its
statement of three days ear-
lier.
However, the department
spokesman added. "As the
President and other spokes-
men have noted in the past,
we do not believe that the
long-standing close and
friendly relationship be-
tween the United States and
Israel are affected by dis-
agreements of this type,"
On Monday. the State De-
partment said that Israeli
use of U.S. equipment in
aiding the Lebanese Chris-
tians does not violate any
U.S. law or Israeli-U.S.
agreements regarding the
transfer of American-sup-
plied military equipment.
Then. in what seemed to
some observers as an at-
tempt to play down entirely
Israel's West Bank settle-
ment policy, Carter, in re-
sponse to a reporter's ques-.
tion during his news confer-
ence Tuesday, declared
that he will not "pressure"
Israel to reverse its policy
although he did repeat that
it was "illegal" and an "ob-
stacle to peace."
Pressed by the same re-
porter as to whether this
was all he planned to do or
say about the issue, Carter
replied, "Obviously we can
exert pressure on Israel in
other ways, but I have no in-
tention of doing so." The
"other ways" was taken by
some to indicate the valid-
ity of the trade-off theory
vis-a-vis legitimizing the
PLO.
For example, the State
Department refused to corn-
ment on the PLO executive
committee's threat made in
Beirut last Friday to "esca-
lete the armed struggle"
against Israel. The corn-
mittee. saying it has map-
ped a "plan of action - in re-
sponse to the new Jewish
settlements. also con-
demned the Carter Adminis-
tration even though it had
assailed Israel on that issue
in the statement last
Thursday.
The State Department
also kept mum even when
the terrorist organization's
executive committee also
reitereated the PLO's rejec-
tion of UN Security Council
Resolution 242 despite Car-
ter's statement during
Vance's Mideast trip that
the PLO might be ready to
accept 242. In addition,
an aide claimed Tuesday
that he had no information
on a published statement
Monday by Farouk Kad-
doumi, head of the PLO's
political department. that
the PLO attitude toward 242
has not changed. Kaddoumi
made this statement just
three days before the Pales-
tine National Council was
to meet in Damascus.
Meanwhile, analysts con-
tinued to see the U.S. water-
ing down its support for
Resolution 242 despite State
Department insistence that
it would oppose any tamper-
ing with it. Carter's asser-
tion that it "would suit us
fine" if the "Palestinians"
would say "we recognize
242 in its entirety, but we
think the Palestinians have
additional status other than
refugees," was seen as a
distinct modification of the
U.S. position without any
formality from the Security
Council.
News reports from vari
ous sources also disclose,
this week that there are
"serious" Arab efforts to
have Carter meet with the
PLO -during the UN Gener-
al Assembly sessions in Sep-
tember. A Beirut news-
paper based this report on
"informed Arab sources."
The New York Time
Service reported that
Egypt. Syria and Jordan
.told Vance during his
Mideast trip that they
would sign peace treaties
with Israel as part of an
overall Middle East peace
settlement.
Time magazine said that
the radical "rejectionist
front" within the PLO has
been persuaded to end their
quest for the destruction of
Israel and is going along
with the PLO aim for a
West Bank-Gaza Strip Pales-
tinian state.
Time said the PLO will
publicly blame Israel for
blocking peace and said
PLO leader Yasir Arafat
will fly to New York for the
General Assembly sessions
to seek a UN resolution
"that will call for the recog-
nition of Israel in exchange
for solid guarantees of a Pa-
lestinian state."
Meanwhile, United Press
International reported that
the U.S. Civil Aeronautics
Board, at the urging of the
State Department, has re-
jected plans for 125 charter
flights carrying 22,000
people to Israel because of
Israeli demands that the
planes land in the West
Bank.
Israel had proposed that
the charters land at Atarot.
a Jordanian airport cap-
tured during the Six-Day
War.
Israeli Foster Parents Sought
JERUSALEM — '1 he
World Zionist Organiza-
tion has approved a p•o-
gram to bring oaths
from abroad to live in Is-
raeli foster homes.
The plan calls for b•ing-
ing 14 to 17-year-olds to
Israel for periods of one to
four years to live with Is-
raeli families.
'1 he program is experi-
mental and will involve
several dozen youngsters
at first, to be chosen very
carefully. The foster
families will be selected
from a numbe• of settle-
ments outside urban
areas.
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