The Recorder · 2 October 1985
CP-1985-011
Reagan defends Israeli retaliation
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Reagan defends Israeli retaliation By BARRY SCHWEID voiced concern that the "pattern of Associated Press President Francois Mitterrand violence would detract from efforts turns down invitation from Reagan to arrange a peace settlement in the UNITED NATIONS - The Reagan to attend meeting to discuss next Middle East. administration deplored rising vio- November's U.S.-Soviet summit. lence in the Middle East, but was in Meanwhile in Hamam Plage, Tuni- Story, Page 24. apparent disarray over whether sia, hundreds of Tunisian and Pales- Israel was justified in bombing a which destroyed the headquarters of tinian rescue workers searched for PLO facility in Tunisia.
PLO chief Yasser Arafat and killed bodies in the bombed-out ruins of the Secretary of State George P. Shultz between 30 and 60 people.
Reagan Palestine Liberation Organization criticized the Israeli raid Tuesday in said nations have the right to retal- headquarters today after a raid by a speech to the foreign ministers of iate against terrorist attacks "as Israeli warplanes. six Persian Gulf countries during the long.as they pick out the people re- Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO. annual special session of the U.N. sponsible.
General Assembly. vowed to retaliate for Tuesday's Asked if the Israelis had met that "We need to be clear in our opposi- attack, and Tunisia demanded a tion to the acts of violence from what- test, Reagan said: "I always had meeting of the U.N, Security Council great faith in their intelligence." to condemn the raid. ever quarter they come, and without Officials at the United Nations with respect to what is the presumed ra- Shultz said they. understood that Palestirian officials said at least 45 - tionale for them, " Shultz said Israel intended the attack against the members of the PLO headquarters But Presidềnt Reagan, in remarks Palestine Liberation Organization as. staff and some 20 Tunisians were to reporters at the White House, took retaliation for terrorist slayings of Is- killed in the raid.
The PLO has said a different view of the air, strike raeli citizens. However, the officials about 100 people were injured
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"Reagan defends Israeli retaliation," The Recorder, 2 October 1985. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1985-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1985-011
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