THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Denies Time Magazine Allegations
that Reagan Threatened PLO Recognition
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israeli officials have
strongly denied a report in
Time magazine that Presi-
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dent Reagan in a letter last
week to Premier Menahem
Begin, warned that the U.S.
could be forced to deal di-
rectly with the Palestine
Liberation Organization if
Israel continued to interfere
with U.S. negotiations in
Beirut to evacuate the PLO
forces.
Time magazine said
Reagan's letter was de-
scribed as "the toughest
from any U.S. President to
an Israeli leader in years."
_ The interference by Israel
referred, according to Time
magazine, to Israeli shel-
ling of west Beirut and the
blockage of the city last
month which at times kept
the leaders of the various
Lebanese factions from
meeting with one another
and hindered negotiations
by Reagan's special envoy,
Philip Habib.
Time magazine also
claimed that Reagan's
letter to Begin followed
an angry message to
Reagan from Saudi
Arabia's King Fand who
demanded that the U.S.
- force Israel to lift the
blockade.
Israeli officials insist that
Reagan's letter to Begin
contained no threat, not
even a hint, that the U.S.
would launch direct contact
with the PLO, nor was any
anger expressed by the two
leaders during their meet-
ing in- Washington last
month.
But informed sources con-
firmed Monday night that
the message from Reagan to
Begin had contained sev-
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eral chastening passages.
They said Begin spoke to
the Cabinet Sunday about
the contents of the message
b_ut had read its precise text.
Some observers linked
the message to what they
noted was a marked in-
crease in recent days in Be-
gin's care and caution to
maintain "coordination"
with the U.S. At - the
Cabinet meeting, the Pre-
mier spoke at length of the
need to give Habib time to
conduct negotiations and
not . to -fall out with
Washington over the ongo-
ing crisis in Beirut.
Some observers felt
that Begin was thus sof-
tening somewhat his ear-
lier stance shich had
threatened military ac-
tion if the talks failed, al-
though at the Cabinet
meeting the Premier
again warned that the
present situation in west
Beirut could not go on.
President Reagan has
written a letter to Saudi
Arabia, urging the Saudis
to find a home for the PLO
terrorists. Reagan appa-
rently wrote that most of
the terrorists should be ac-
United Artists Chief Resigns
LOS ANGELES — David
Begelman, the controver-
sial movie executive, res-.
igned Monday from his post
as the head of United Ar-
tists.
Begelman, who was cre-
dited with saving Columbia
Pictures from bankruptcy
before- quitting that job fol-
lowing an embezzelment
scandal in 1973, cited Un-
ited Artists' recent financial
difficulties as the reason for
his resignation.
Donald Sipes, president of
cepted- by Syria. It was re-
ported this week that Saudi
Arabia offered Syria hun-
dreds of millions of dollars
to accept the PLO.
An official also stated
that Israel will not launch
an all-out attack to drive
the PLO out of west Beirut
while the U.S. considers a
peaceful withdrawal possi-
ble. "Israel will wait so long
as the US. believes there is
a chance" for the diplomatic
process, he said. "There is
no need at present to con-
sider other options."
In Amman, Jordan;
Foreign Minister Hans-
Dietrich Genascher of
West Germany appealed
to all parties in the
Lebanese conflict to end
what he called "a vicious
circle of violence and
counter-violence."
Speaking at the start of a
four-day visit to Jordan and
Egypt, he said Sunday night
that West Germany was
convinced that Israel could
not achieve security by the
use of force, but only
through the recognition of
Palestinian rights, includ-
ing that of self-
determination.
To be totally understand-
ing makes one very indul-
gent.
MGM Film Corp., will tem-
porarily replace Begelman,
according to studio officials.
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Israel Rebuts Percy Charge
That It. Broke Its Word
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The prime minister's office
issued a sharp rebuttal to
Sen. Charles Percy's charge
that Israel had "broken its
word" to Washington by in-
vading Lebanon and that
U:S. - Israeli relations are at
their lowest ebb.
The Illionis Republican,
who is chairman of the Se-
nate Foreign Relations
Committee, made his re-
marks in an appearance on
the CBS-TV "Face the Na-
tion" program Sunday.
In response, the prime
minister's office claimed
that Israel in fact had de-
monstrated its concern for
U.S. interests by not in-
forming Washington in ad-
vance of its plans to invade
Lebanon.
According to the gov-
ernment, had Israel dis-
closed its plans, the
American Administra-
tion would have been
vulnerable to charges by
its enemies of collusion
with Israel.
The piime minister's of-
fice also challenged Percy's
assertions that Israel was
losing the support of Ameri-
can public opinion because
of its actions in Lebanon
and that there was discord
within Israel on the same
issue.
It cited a recent Gallup
Poll which showed that
Americans supported Is-
rael's objectives in Lebanon
by a majority of 76-14 per-
cent and a recent poll taken
in Israel which showed that
83 percent of the population
supported the war in Leba-
non.
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