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Article: Lebanon and staying power.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 4, 1984
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THE NEWSPAPERS tel me that America's role in Lebanon is now on "hold"; and that President Reagan has been defending his peace plan for the Near East, in an interview in the Paris daily Le Monde. In the interview, which appeared in the newspaper dated March 21, the President claimed, with some justification, that his plan, announced in September of 1982, was a good and a realistic one, and if anybody had a better plan, he would like to hear about it.
The trouble seems to be that the U.S. is in no shape to get the interested parties--Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, principally--to sit down and discuss any peace proposals, America's or anybody else's. Instead, ...