The State Department today deplored the Israeli raid on Arab terrorist headquarters in Beirut last night and branded as “mischievous” allegations by the Palestine Liberation Organization of U.S. complicity in the attack.
Department spokesman Charles Bray told newsmen at today’s briefing that “We ourselves have on many occasions deplored the cycle of violence which has taken such a heavy toll in human life and suffering and we must regretfully deplore it again.” He said if it were proved that innocent lives were lost, the United States’ regret would be “even greater.”
Bray said the PLO allegation that some elements of the Israeli commando force had taken refuge in the American Embassy in Beirut “is utterly without foundation.”
WALDHEIM DEPLORES BEIRUT, CYPRUS ATTACKS
(A United Nations spokesman said today that Secretary General Kurt Waldheim “learned with deep concern of the incidents in Cyprus and Lebanon” and that “he deplores these new acts of violence” which can “only further increase tension and complicate the search for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.”)
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