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THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27. 1983 1$ The Israeli By William Beecher Globe Staff : CAIRO -i American oftleials are understandably reluctant to discuss it. but one of the main reasons 1 t Washington decided ' ' MEWS It was time to send UMALYSIS Secretary of State t George P. Shultz to the Mideast Is that many Israelis consider Philip C. Habib. the US special envoy. pro-Lebanese. It was fejtthat Israel would be unwilling Jo make concessions to him in working out a security arrangement in Lebanon before pulling their troops out, . . -,.Shultz is seen not only as a man sttiving to Improve Israeli-American, relations, but one with whom Arafat: Palestinian state possible within 3 years "'.Associated Press , ( ( LONDON - Yasser Arafat, -chairman of the Palestine Liber- Ration Organization, says a Pal- vestinian state on the West Bank .is possible within three .years i but could never be an adminis-i trative extension of Jordan; : "What Is unacceptable is a state that is not really indepen-.dent," Arafat said in an inter--view published this week in the May issue of the Middle East, an English-language magazine based in London. "It is unacceptable to become', i a province of somebody else's .government," Arafat said. " President Ronald Reagan has ' proposed that King Hussein of .-Jordan be allowed to represent !" the Palestinians in future peace J talks with Israel and that the aim of these talks be a Palestin-. Jan entity associated with Jor- dan. i .''i Earlier this month, Arafat Man tells press he killed Lebanese president-elect United Press International J l- 'BEIRUT - A man claiming responsibility for .-the assassination of Beshir Gemayel, then president-elect of Lebanon, was turned over to Le ianesc judicial authorities yesterday by the right-wing Christian militia. v ..The,man. Habib Chartouni, told reporters hei J placed a bomb in Gemayel's Phalangist Party A J-headquarters and detonated it last Sept. 14, knifing the president-elect and 44 others, including many of the party's top aides. I' He denied Syria vyas behind the assassination but said his "contact" in the operation was an official of a pro-Syrian Lebanese party, the National Syrian Socialist Party. J Gemayel, who, angered Lebanon's Moslems fby hailing Israel's invasion last June 6 as a J"surgical operation" against the Palestine Liberation Organization, was killed while addressing supporters at the headquarters of his Phalangist Party in East Beirut. , His assassination derailed a key Israel objective in its invasion - the chance to sign a peace jltreaty with Lebanori. Gemayel, who would have J?been Lebanon's youngest president, openly said -5heX would have made peace with Israel. His brother, Amin Gemayel, was elected president Nin his stead, .: 3 tl t . f iJl J 111 . .1 A 1 1 , inanouni saia ne aamiuea ine Investigators of the Lebanese Forces - an amal-' gam of Christian militiamen that Gemayel had fled - a few days after the bombing. n m 4 ,j& - y-p f ) -Si Vim tl mmJW view of Habib as pro special bilateral issues such as lifting the hold on the sale of 75 F16 jet fighters to Israel - can be discussed and also decided. As one Mideast diplomat put It: "Habib is regarded as more Lebanese than the Lebanese the Israelis face across the bargaining table. They think he strongly tilts toward their point of view. As they see it. he's more of a hero to the average Lebanese than is President Amin Gemayel." Perhaps this is why. en route to the region. Shultz said. "It is our judgment that the issues have got to the point where the injection of a new face . . . would be helpful." It matters not w hether Habib. a distinguished diplomat of Lebanese and Hussein met in Amman to discuss a Joint approach toward talks with Israel. But the king broke off negotiations, saying he would not enter the talks independently. In the magazine interview, Arafat vowed that the PLO would never "delegate our authority of representing the Palestinian people to anybody else." Though Arafat rejected the Reagan plan, he said in the interview that "geographical and historical links make it quite acceptable to us to develop a special relationship leading to some kind of confederation" with Jordan. 1 But Arafat said this could only come after the occupied territories were "liberated." Arafat said that "setting up a state in the territories occupied in 1967 is possible. . .say within the coming three years." 171 u crime 10 in- 3 SHOP TODAY, descent, has been scrupulously evenhanded. If the Israels have the perception that he favors Lebanon's interests, that is a practical reality which must be factored tn. - Senate endorsed Shultz Although the Senate debate last year on Shultz' confirmation as Secretary of State centered on his ties to the Bechtel Group Inc. and the possibility that its extensh e engineering contracts in the Arab world might tempt Shultz to favor Arabs over Israel, the senators expressed their confidence in Shultz with a 97-0 confirmation vote. And certainly the Israelis are aware that Shultz recently made a special appeal to President Ronald Reagan to grant high-technology licenses for the Lavie jet fighter, which Israel hopes to build, principally on the argument that this was needed to improve relations. When Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger learned of the action, he demanded a meeting with the President to get him to reverse himself - contending that Israel would be wasting billions to build its own fighter and that the United States, in effect, would be subsidizing future competition with American aircraft. But Reagan held firm. The particular timing of this trip. Shultz' first to the Mideast. Involved other factors as well. First came the last-minute collapse of an apparent deal whereby King Hussein of Jordan could have announced his willingness to enter talks on the future of the West Bank and the Gaza with at least the tacit support of Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization. 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Inner circle favored trip The inner circle around the President wanted Shultz to make a mission to the Mideast both to show the United States was not deterred by the danger, and to secure a settlement in Lebanon as evidence it could use its influence with Israel effectively, thus encouraging Hussein and other moderate Arabs to take a chance on talks over the future of the West Bank and Gaza. Finally, some analysts felt that because of almost daily casualties to Israeli troops in Lebanon, pressures are building in Israel to reach an agreement to get out while, at the same time, restoring good relations with the United States. Israel's vital strategic connection. Egypt was considered the best first stop to demonstrate the continuing vitality of the relationship with the United States and to argue against any erosion of relations between Egypt and Israel. ' When he alighted from his plane at Cairo Airport, Shultz recalled that only one year ago a peace treaty with Israel restored the Sinai peninsula to Egypt. "In that act," he said on the hot. windswept tarmac. "Egypt and Israel taught the world a lesson - that lesson is: negotiations work. The political process can achieve things that violence and rejection will never achieve." After about three hours of private discussion with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt yesterday, Shultz said the positions of Reagan and Mubarak on how to solve the Lebanese problem were "identical." And, as for the Reagan plan's approach to the broader peace process, Mubarak chimed In that he: has always supported that approach. Today, Shultz arrives in Israel for talks with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. If all goes well, he hopes to go to Beirut tomorrow to discuss compromise proposals with Lebanese leaders. 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