As the year 5744 came to a close, Israeli Premier Shimon Peres predicted that Israeli troops will leave Lebanon during 5745. President Reagan said his September, 1982, Mideast peace initiative “remains a realistic and workable approach, and I am committed to it as firmly as on the day I announced it.”
Israeli Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Soviet Mission to the United Nations, the first such meeting in three years. Their 90-minute meeting was described as “remarkably free of polemics.” Shamir also met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Abdel Meguid in New York, the first Israeli-Egyptian contact on the foreign ministerial level since the Egyptians recalled their Ambassador from Tel Aviv in September, 1982, during the war in Lebanon.
And in south Lebanon, two Israelis were killed and 10 were wounded in seven incidents several days before Rosh Hashanah began, bringing the casualty toll since the war started in Lebanon to 597 dead and nearly 4,000 injured.
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