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Friday, November 23, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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IDF withdrawal from Lebanon
on 'hold' as talks plod along
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Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, discusses the
Israel-Lebanon peace talks with U.S. Under Secretary of State Richard
W. Murphy, right, and Samuel Lewis, the American ambassador to
Israel. The U.s.-Israel discussions preceded the peace talks.
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Israeli and
Tel Aviv (JTA)
Lebanese military teams held the
third round of talks at Nakura
this week but failed to narrow the
gap between their respective posi-
tions on the withdrawal of the Is-
rael Defense Force (IDF) from
south Lebanon and future secu-
rity arrangements along Israel's
northern border.
Gen. Amos Gilboa, head of the
Israeli delegation, told reporters
after Monday's meeting that he
had stressed to the Lebanese that
until suitable security ar-
rangements are made, the IDF
will stay iri Lebanon. He also
made it clear that Israel would
make no concessions, such as the
release of prisoners it holds in
south Lebanon as long as attacks
on the IDF continue.
The major difference between
Israel and Lebanon on security
concerns who will police the bor-
der once the IDF withdraws. The
Lebanese delegation, headed by
Gen. Mohammed Al-Haj, flatly re-
jected that role for the Israel-
backed South Lebanese Army
(SLA) and proposed that the reg-
ula,r Lebanese army take over in
the south. But a spokesman for
Haj said Monday that Lebanon
could not act as Israel's policeman
in the south and is obliged only to
provide security for the Lebanese
population there.
Israel places no trust in the
Lebanese regulars' ability to pro-
tect the borders from terrorist at-
tacks on Israel and insists that
Gen. Antoine Lehad's SLA be as-
signed the job.
Israel also wants the United
Nations Interim force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) to be enlarged and
made responsible for security
north of the border zone, in the
Awali River sector. The Lebanese
are amenable to that proposal.
However, Israel was shocked
when the negotiating teams met
at Naku; last Thursday, to be hit
with a Lebanese demand for $10
billion in war reparations. Israel
rejected this out of hand and a
spokesman for the Lebanese dele-
gation said later that agreement
had been reached to confine the
talks to the security and military
level.
Israel also rejected Lebanese
demands that it release about
1,000 prisoners from the Ansar
detention camp and that it re-
open communications between
south Lebanon and the rest of the
country. The crossing points be-
tween the regions are manned by
the IDF which restricts traffic for
security reasons.
An Israeli military spokesman
said Monday there would be no
prisoner release and no opening of
the cross points as long as attacks
on the IDF continue. (A Katyusha
rocket was fired at an IDF posi-
tion near Yadkin village in south
Lebanon Monday morning. There
were no casualties.)
Meanwhile, an Israel soldier,
severely wounded when his con-
voy was ambushed near Sarafand
in south Lebanon earlier this
month, died No. 13 in a Haifa hos-
pital. His death brought to 602 the
number of fatalities sustained by
the IDF in Lebanon since the in-
vasion of that country in June
1982.
It was the second IDF fatality in
south Lebanon this month.
NJ grants
New York (JTA) — Grants to-
taling $125,000 have been made
by the New Jersey Departments
of Human Services and Education
to the Jewish Vocational Service
(JVS) in East Orange.
The grants will be used to pro-
vide expanded vocational train-
ing programs for persons listed as
refugees by the State Depart-
ment.
Less paperwork
Elizabeth, N.J. (JTA) — A re-
cent measure enacted by the New
Jersey legislature concerning the
guidelines by which non-public
schools may apply for government
aid will save Jewish day schools
throughout the state hundreds of
hours of time-consuming paper
work, according to Rabbi Yaacov
Dombroff, executive director of
the New Jersey region of Agudath
Israel.