The Senate Appropriations Committee puts an end to a Reagan Administration plan to arm elite units of the Jordanian army as part of the U.S. rapid deployment force in the Mideast when it votes to delete from the 1984 military spending bill $220 million previously authorized for the project.
A behind-the-scenes quarrel between Israel and the U.S. over America’s failure to avail itself of Israel’s offer of medical aid to marines wounded in the bombing in Beirut in October is resolved with Secretary of State George Shultz informing Premier Yitzhak Shamir that the U.S. decision was not motivated by political considerations.
A suicide truck bomb attack on Israel’s military headquarters in Tyre, south Lebanon, destroys one building, severely damages two others and leave 29 Israeli soldiers and border policemen and 31 Lebanese dead and scores injureded.
Six Israeli soldiers held as POWs by the AI Fatah arm of the PLO for 14 months are freed under a prisoner exchange agreement in return for 4,600 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners held in Israel and in the Ansar POW camp in south Lebanon.
Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe Arens end two days of talks with Reagan and other top Administration officials in Washington with wide ranging agreements that commit Israel and the U.S. to closer cooperation than ever before in the Middle East.
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