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DOUBT CAST ON U.S. MEDIATION
Mideast leaders negotiate
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From AP and UPI
JERUSALEM-The leaders of Syria and Israel
wrangled at long distance yesterday, appearing un-
certain whether U.S. mediation could ease their war-
threatening crisis over Syrian missiles in Lebanon.
Washington said the negotiations were at "a delicate
point."
Acting White House spokesman Larry Speakes con-
firmed that President Reagan met unannounced
Saturday with the director of the Saudi intelligence
service, Prince Turqi Faisal.
THE SAUDIS, until recently the main source of
financial support for Syrian forces operating in
Lebanon, are playing a key role in the U.S. effort to
defuse the crisis over Syria's stationing of Soviet-
built surface-to-air missiles in Lebanon.
The U.S. goal, Speakes said, "is to deal with all par-
ties in the Middle East to see if we can't be helping in
seeking a solution. Our goal is to seek restraint by all
parties in the area."
Philip Habib, Reagan's special envoy to the Middle
East, is to remain in Israel for an undetermined
period before returning to Syria and Lebanon. He has
been in the Middle East for almost two weeks sear-
ching for a solution to the crisis that blew up suddenly
in eastern Lebanon at the end of April..
ISRAELI NEWSPAPERS reported that Israel has
agreed to refrain from any military attacks on the
Syrian missile sites in Lebanon as long as there is
hope that the Habib mission remains alive.
Habib's immediate task, according to the State
Department, is to return the situation in Lebanon to a
state of "normalcy" by removing the Syrian
missiles, placing some restrictions on Israeli actions
in Lebanon and giving Lebanese government forces a
greater peace-keeping role in some contested areas.
SPEAKES SAID Habib's trip to the Middle East
was "open-ended" and that the president "is closely
involved" although he has not spoken directly to
Habib.
Following a 90-minute meeting with Habib, Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin said Assad was in-.
correct in saying the American had not delivered
U.S. proposals for settling the missile crisis. "I can't
say whether I am optimistic of pessimistic," he ad-
ded, and said the diplomatic effort would continue
"as long as there is a spark of hope."
Assad told a reporter in Damascus: "It is difficult
for us to know precisely what the Philip Habib
mission will result in" because Habib, the shuttling
U.S. envoy, carried "no specific proposals, but
Israeli demands that are outside any logic or
tradition." He added, however, "if the matter depen-
ded on us, I would say there would be no war."
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Japan denies U.S.
warships intruded
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TOKYO tAP) - Japanese gover-
nment leaders, seeking to calm a new
foreign policy storm, denied yesterday
that U.S. nuclear-armed warships in-
truded into Japanese territory and
dismissed allegations the United States
had trapped Japan in an "alliance"
that could lead it into war.
U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield,
meeting with Japan's new foreign
minister, offered Washington's
assurances that U.S. officials have
"faithfully honored" the U.S.-Japan
mutual security treaty, despite the U.S.
envoy's assertion that nuclear weapons
regularly pass through Japanese
waters.
PRIME MINISTER Zenko Suzuki
told a news conference that Japan-will
"continue to trust" U.S. assurances it is
not violating Japan's anti-nuclear
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"principles." The three rules, drawn up
in 1968 by the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party, prohibit the in-
troduction, production or maintenance
of nuclear weapons.
In so doing, Suzuki denied assertions
by former U.S. Ambassador Edwin
Reischauer that a 21-year-old verbal
agreement between the two nations
allows such practices.
Reischauer's comments - to repor-
ters in Cambridge, Mass., where he is a
Harvard University professor - added
fuel to a parliamentary wrangle. over
Suzuki's May 7-8 summit meeting with
President Reagan. And they compoun-
ded what already was the government's
worst political crisis since it took office
10 months ago.
IGNORING THE shouts of Japanese
reporters that his government was
"lying to the people," Suzuki said all
American nuclear-armed ship
movements are subject to "prior con-
sultation" with Tokyo.
When reporters demanded to know if
that meant Japan allowed the entry of
nuclear weapons on some occasions, he
said that even if the United States wan-
ted to bring them into Japan, "the an-
swer would still be no.
"Japan has always trusted that the
United States has faithfully lived up to
agreements in connection with the U.S.-
Japan Security Treaty and will con-
tinue to trust U.S. fidelity," Suzuki said.
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