Israel has requested the eight Security Council members with which she has diplomatic relations not to support a one-sided resolution condemning the Israeli raid on Beirut without mentioning Arab terrorist actions of the past few months. Foreign Minister Abba Eban told the Cabinet today that his envoy had contacted the United States, Britain, France, Austria, Australia, Panama, Peru and Kenya asking them to insist on a balanced resolution at the Council.
Officials here said the U.S. had promised not to support an unbalanced resolution. They said that Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs promised Israeli-Ambassador to Washington Simcha Dinitz, with whom he met Friday, that America would not lend its support to any one-sided draft resolution, but did not promise that the U.S. would use its veto power.
Officials here are not concealing their satisfaction at the U.S. attitude toward the Beirut raid and its aftermath. There has been no specific criticism by Washington of Israel’s action, but rather a general expression of anxiety at the chain of violence. At the same time, there has been a sharp U.S. response to the “big lie” by which Arab propaganda sought to implicate U.S. intelligence in the Israeli action.
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