The World - News from May 24, 1985
Ariel Sharon, Israel’s former defense minister, denied telling American officials before the Lebanon invasion that Israel intended to advance to Beirut. “Never were operational details shared--not a name, nor forces, nor schedules,” Sharon said. “What I said was we would never recoil from terror.” Samuel W. Lewis, the U.S. ambassador in Israel, told Israeli television Wednesday that Sharon had discussed “going all the way to Beirut” at a meeting with U.S. special envoy Philip C. Habib in December, 1981, six months before Israel invaded Lebanon.
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