World News Tonight (ABC) - 1982-09-19
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[0:01] [Music]
[0:05] From ABC News, this is World News
[0:08] Tonight, Sunday. Now, from our
[0:10] Washington headquarters, here is Sam
[0:12] Donaldson.
[0:13] >> Good evening. The United States and
[0:15] Israel, locked in a grave policy
[0:16] confrontation as a result of this
[0:18] weekend's bloody massacre of Palestinian
[0:20] civilians in West Beirut, considered
[0:22] their next moves today. The Israeli
[0:24] cabinet met to ponder President Reagan's
[0:26] demand that Israel withdraw from Beirut
[0:28] immediately and perhaps to place blame.
[0:31] Some speculated that Defense Minister
[0:32] Chiron might even be forced to resign.
[0:35] And here in Washington, President Reagan
[0:37] considered the option of sending US
[0:38] Marines back to Beirut to help restore
[0:41] Lebanese control there. So serious is
[0:43] the crisis that Philip Habib, the
[0:45] president's top Middle East envoy,
[0:47] interrupted his vacation to return to
[0:49] Washington. But even before Habib
[0:51] arrived, the president had met with his
[0:53] top foreign policy advisers at the White
[0:55] House. More on that from Anne Compton.
[0:58] >> The parade of limousines up the White
[0:59] House drive brought in all of the
[1:01] administration's key players, including
[1:03] the Secretary of State and the entire
[1:05] National Security Council. They came
[1:08] with advice for President Reagan on
[1:10] whether the US troops may be needed
[1:12] again in Lebanon. For more than an hour
[1:14] in the White House situation room, the
[1:16] president weighed the options. First,
[1:18] the US agrees with last night's UN
[1:21] resolution increasing the number of
[1:22] observers in Beirut. But that force may
[1:25] not be enough. Next, the US is willing
[1:28] to consider the s