... I wrote about the account in Mike Deaver's memoir of how, back in August 1982, Pres. Reagan had seemed surprised by Deaver's suggestion he could just tell Israeli PM M. Begin to stop shelling the heck out of the heavily populated areas of West Beirut. It makes good reading:
(Note the endnote from Begin himself there, too.)
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Helena Cobban
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