The Israeli-Lebanese agreement which is scheduled to be signed on Wednesday provides for the restoration of the former Palestine-Lebanon border and the removal of troops to a point several kilometers from the border, reliable sources told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today, adding that the Israelis would withdraw from 14 Lebanese villages to a line ten kilometers from the frontier.
These same sources said that each nation will maintain only 1,500 troops on its side of the line. The Lebanese line will be much farther away from the border than the Israeli line. Under the agreement, the Lebanese will withdraw from only one point–the customs house at Ras el Nakura, where the formal accord will be signed. It was learned here, meanwhile, that when the Israeli-Syrian armistice talks begin, they will probably take place either in Samakh or in Mishmar Hayarden, on the Syrian border.
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