The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, August 3, 1982-Page 5
LEBANON INVASION SWIFT, BUT COSTLY

Israel shows

By The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel- The Israeli ar-
my, from hard-eyed professional
soldiers to hastily mobilized bank
clerks, took less than two weeks to
cripple Palestinian guerrilla forces and
throw Lebanon's power balances into
turmoil.
Operation Peace for Galilee- an-
nounced as retaliation for the shooting
of Ambassador Shlomo Argov in Lon-
don June 3-escalated like a flash fire,
apparently surprising even the Israeli

IT CAUSED political rifts at home
and strained support abroad for the
Jewish state.
On its first day, the lightning thrust
passed the Litani River where troops
stopped in 1978 when they last went af-
ter Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon.
Within a week, it reached Beirut, the
divided Lebanese capital.
Syrian forces, which dominated
Lebanon since the nation's Moslem lef-
tist-Christian rightist civil war in 1976
and had threatened Israeli aircraft with
missiles in the Bekaa Valley, were bat-

firepower
tered badly, their access cut between
Beirut and their own capital,
Damascus.
ISRAELI pilots fired national pride,
shooting down a reported 85 Syrian jets
against the loss of one plane-to
Palestinians, not Syrians.
Ground troops linked with Maronite !
Christian Phalangist forces east and
north of Beirut, giving the Christian
militias heavy new political clout, with
potential control of the southern third of
Lebanon.
Engineers built new bridges, widened
the coastal road, and built a new run-
way in the central hills which was
receiving C-130 transport planes within
a week of the advance.
The price was high, however, and no
one has yet been able to assess it.
UNCOUNTED Lebanese civilians
and non-combatant Palestinians are
still buried under the rubble of cities
and towns in the occupied region.
Lebanese authorities estimate there
were thousands of deaths, with well
over 100,000 homeless, along with
crushing day-to-day problems for the
stunned and disoriented local
population.
Israeli officials claim the casualty
figures are much lower. Yasir Arafat
Lebanon's southern coastal strip, in "...leads PLO resistance
happier times a flower-speckled string with a pox of bullet holes.
of thriving towns along the emerald and Clusters of refugees camp under
azure Mediterranean, looks as if an plastic sheets on beches and in olive
earthquake has struck.wnrodebfa igsowd into corners of
THE BIBLICAL towns .of Sidon and govpe, faildies.coditcreso
Tyre ar pehp on-urr CROWDS WAIT patiently in the sun
destroyed, with whole sections lying in ;fo s t etyarnt
crumpled heaps. . terrorists or allow them to move from
Along interior roads, tanks have rip- town to town. Those who venture out tie
ped the fronts from buildings along a white cloth to their car-radio aerials.
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AP Photo
PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS on motorcycles patrol the streets of west
Beirut last Thursday morning as a cease-fire with Israeli forces takes effect.
They hold their guns in a 'V' sign as a symbol of determination.
PLO in 'strong position';
r Israel demands withdrawal

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Israel has refused to lift the siege until
the PLO is gone.
LATER, aboard Air Force One,
Reagan said the United States is doing
all it can to stop the fighting in
Lebanon. He rejected Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev's request that he use
everything at his disposal to halt
Israel's "continuing annihilation of
people in Beirut."
"We reject the implication contained
in President Brezhnev's letter that the
United States is not doing all it can to
bring about a peaceful solution to the
crisis in Lebanon," Reagan said in a
statement. "Through Ambassador
(Philip) Habib's efforts, as well as
through the United Nations, we are
striving to bring about a lasting cease-
fire that will end the suffering."
He said the Soviet leader's
"propagandistic exercise casts doubts
on Soviet motives regarding the
Lebanese crisis."

BREZHNEV'S letter to Reagan was
received Sunday, presidential
spokesman Larry Speakes said as he
traveled with Reagan to Des Moines,
Iowa.
During his 20-minute meeting with
Shamir, Reagan "stressed the need for
a complete end by all parties to the
fighting" to allow Habib to negotiate a
settlement between Israel and the
Palestine Liberation Organization, a
White House statement said. "The
world can no longer accept a situation
of constantly escalating violence," it
said.
After the session, Shamir said "there
will tiot be any problem" with the sale
of U.S. military equipment to Israel,
although he then said the matter was
not discussed.
Hustling past waiting reporters,
Shamir would say only that he and
Weinberger "discussed the situation in
Lebanon and the problem of removing
the PLO from Beirut and Lebanon."