US, France working on two-phase UN Mideast plan
The United States, France and Britain hope for a Security Council resolution within a week that would call for a truce and perhaps beef up U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon until a more robust force can be formed, diplomats and U.N. officials said on Wednesday. The United States and France, council diplomats said, are rapidly working out differences on an initial resolution that would also call for the creation of a buffer zone and the disarmament of Hizbollah guerrillas. Full Story