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position, believes they should be held within a military framework.
Shafik, Wazzan, the Moslem prime minister of Lebanon, said last week that he had no intention of complying, with Israel's demand. And he urged the U.S. to.
press issue.
Israel on that
There are additional problems facing the parties.
Israel insists that FLO units in Lebanon be withdrawn prior to a sirhtiltaneous evacuation of forces by Israel and Syria.
Syria claims it will not leave unless Israel goes first.
In the absence of any progress on any of these related matters, the combatants have dug in to face Lebanon's cold winter, and Lebanon has asked the U.S., France and Italy — which already deploy about 3,400
Report Turkish Jews
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"troops in and around Beirut — to increase the size of their peacekeeping contingents.
All three seem recep-' tive to the request.
The Lebanese, however, want more troops to patrol their battered country. Elie Salem, their foreign minister, has asked Brazil. Portugal and Colombia to contribute up to 2,000 soldiers each.
-Salem's plea comes on the heels of further fighting between Druze and. Christian militias in the Shouf mountains, a region where the Israeli army holds sway.
Lebanon's army, which is weak and
divided along ethnic lines, has not attempted to intervene. Washing-, ton has pledged to rebuild it over the next few years, and this program may cost the Reagan administration several hundred million dollars. ■
Meanwhile, Israel and. the U.S. are locked into something of a conflict over foreign aid.
The Senate appropriations committee has decided to give Israel $2.5 billion in assistance — $475 million more than Ronald Reagan requested — and the state department has criticized the move.
Reagan apparently feels that an increase at
this time would jeopardize his peace plan by appearing to endorse Is-raiell policy. Israel has rejected his proposals and has announced plans for more settlements oh the West Bank.
Israeli, cabinet, secretary Dan Meridor said the ministers were ''a bit astonished" that Washington has linked economic and military assistance with, a particular political stance by Israel.
The Israelis feel that the administration is adopting a tougher line against them''^ with George Shultz ensconced in the state department. .
Despite this problem, Israel has agreed to provide a U.S. team with
information about its military victory in Lebanon. Previously, Israel had refused. The Ameri-. cans have learned that the Israeli air force destroyed: one of its downed F-4 Phantoms to prevent Rijssian technicians from poring over its secret electronic equipment.
The Russians were killed while examining the wreckage. The Phantom was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft fire in July arid crashed in Syria. The Israeli pilot was killed and the navigator taken prisoner.
WASHINGTON —
The World Jewish Congress reports that an assessment of the human rights situation in Turkey prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives says. that the rights arid interests of the Jewish community are being respected by the Turkish authorities and that its position has become more secure since the imposition of martial law.
The congressional report was prepared by a staff delegation of the Coinmission on Security and Co-operation in Europe last month. The staff delegation traveled to Turkey from Aug. 22-
29 as part of a fact-finding mission to several European countries in preparation for the. fall session of the Madrid review meeting of the Helsinki Accords.
In seeking to investigate the rights of reliv giousand ethnic minorities in Turkey, the delegation met with representatives of the Greek, Armenian and Jewish minorities in Istanbul.
"On the whole," the delegation noted, "it gained the impression that the rights and interests of these minori--ties were being respected by the Turkish authorities and that; if anything, the situation
might have improved slightly since the imposition of martial law."
The delegatio.n reported that representatives of-all the religious groups maintained that their communities enjoy, full freedom to practice their religion. The Greeks and Jews stressed "there was no official discrimination against them," with representatives of the Jewish community emphasizing that they enjoy full huinan rights. They also stressed that ' 'they felt moire secure under martial law than they had before.""
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