Lebanon formerly abrogates its May 17, 1983 withdrawal and security agreement with Israel. Israel blames for “forcing Lebanon to surrender to a diktat which means a death sentence for Lebanon’s independence.”
Reagan, while stressing the U.S. commitment to maintain strong, close ties with Israel, urges in a speech to 2,000 persons at the National United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Conference in Washington that American Jewry support the sale of advanced U.S. military hardware to Jordan, a coutry still technically in a state of war with Israel.
The second round of Lebanese national reconciliation talks ends in Lausanne after nine days of fruitless deliberations failing to achieve even a semblance of unity between leaders of the warring Christian and Moslem factions.
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