Military Action:
IDF and US Marines agree on measures to avoid confrontations; 4,000 Lebanese police, using jeeps and APCs, begin 24-hour patrols in Beirut; Syrian and Israeli tanks oppose each other for second day along cease-fire line.
Political Responses:
Israel/ Occupied Territories: Israel describes EEC statement on Middle East as a total distortion, rejects call for settlement halt; High Court overturns as too vague a year-old ban by Broadcasting Authority on interviews with public figures in occupied territories identified with the PLO; studies resume at Birzeit, 7 students held for possession of illegal literature; Israeli car window smashed by stone near Kalandia camp, school closed.
Arab Governments: Egyptian foreign minister says Egypt will not refuse to resume dialogue with PLO if it serves the Palestinian cause.
US and Other Countries: Reagan Administration reportedly irritated at Israeli refusal to accept US ideas to break dead-lock in Lebanon negotiations.