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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 13 - Negotiations on withdrawing the Palestine Liberation Organization from west Beirut resumed today. The P.L.O. leadership sent the special United States envoy, Philip C. Habib, a list of the guerrillas to be pulled out and the Arab countries willing to accept them.

The talks, involving Mr. Habib, the Lebanese Government and, indirectly, the P.L.O., had been broken off by Lebanese officials Thursday during an 11-hour Israeli aerial bombardment of west Beirut. The cease-fire that went into effect at dusk Thursday was still holding today on almost all fronts.

The P.L.O. document given to Mr. Habib calls for 7,100 guerrillas to leave Lebanon by land and sea for Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Southern Yemen and the Sudan.

It was one of the quietest days in west Beirut since the Israeli invasion began. Lebanese officials attributed the lull to the telephone call Thursday in which President Reagan was said to have expressed his outrage over the bombings to Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel.

With local police stations no longer functioning properly, it was impossible to get an accurate, independent casualty count. The P.L.O. press agency said 500 people were killed or injured in the air raids Thursday and 800 homes were destroyed, mostly in the Palestinian refugee camps and the southern suburbs.

Mr. Habib appeared to be using the lull to try to get a final agreement on withdrawing the guerrillas from west Beirut. At noon today, the pendulum of emotions here was already swinging back from Thursday's dark pessimism to renewed hope of a political settlement. Points of the Pullout

The reason for the optimism, according to former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, the main intermediary between the P.L.O. and Mr. Habib, was the document that the Palestinians had relayed to the American envoy through Prime Minister Shafik al-Wazzan. It contained a detailed list of how many guerrillas would be withdrawn, a timetable for the pullout, a description of the means of transport and the names of the seven Arab countries that had agreed to accept them.

Although Syria agreed in principle to accept some of the trapped P.L.O. fighters, it was not on the list because of confusion over the withdrawal of Syrian troops from west Beirut.

Israel has demanded that the Syrian troops, about 500 men, and members of the Syrian-controlled brigade of the Palestine Liberation Army, about 2,000 men, leave the capital with the guerrillas.

The Arab League sent the Syrian troops and the Palestinian army brigade here in 1976 to help quell the Lebanese civil war. But the Syrian force's mandate expired on July 23, and the Lebanese, who grew to resent the Syrian presence, have not asked for it to be renewed.

The titular Lebanese commander of the Syrian troops in Lebanon, Brig. Sami al-Khatib, has been in Damascus this week for talks with President Hafez al-Assad. He has been trying to coordinate any Syrian or Palestinian army withdrawal from Beirut with the pullout of the P.L.O. The brigadier will return to Beirut shortly, according to Government sources.

The Christian Phalangist radio said Brigadier Khatib is expected to bring back an official Syrian request that the Lebanese Government formally ask Syria to ''redeploy'' its peacekeeping troops from west Beirut.

After giving the P.L.O. document to Mr. Habib, Prime Minister Wazzan told reporters that the American envoy ''now has enough elements to be able to complete his negotiations and reach a stage at which implementation can begin - if Israel has honest intentions to make it possible for the Palestinians to leave and to implement the political solution.''

Mr. Wazzan said Mr. Habib was planning to return to Israel soon for more talks on the withdrawal plan. Lebanese officials said he would probably try to convince the Israelis to compromise on the few outstanding differences holding up a final settlement. 'A People Without Passports'

In accepting in principle Mr. Habib's plan for getting the guerrillas out of west Beirut, Israel insisted that the P.L.O. not only provide the number of those leaving and their destination but also their names.

The P.L.O. has given the number and the destinations, but it has refused to reveal the names. ''We will not give the Israelis any names,'' said Nayef Hawatmeh, the leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the third-ranking guerrilla leader. ''We are a people without passports or identity cards and until we get our own state we aren't giving the Israelis any names.''

Mr. Hawatmeh said in an interview that there was also a dispute between the P.L.O. and the Israelis over the precise number of guerrillas in west Beirut. He said the difference involved fewer than a thousand men.

He said the Israelis were refusing to take into account those guerrillas killed in the last two months of fighting around Beirut. ''What do they think?'' he asked. ''That we are supermen and never have any of our men killed?'' There is also disagreement on the timing of the deployment of a multinational peace force in Beirut. U.S. Pressure on Israel

Lebanese officials say they are hopeful that the United States can exert pressure on Israel to accept the arrangement agreed on by Mr. Habib, the Lebanese Government and the P.L.O.

That accord calls for an advance contingent of French, Italian or American troops to arrive at 5 A.M. on the morning of the start of the guerrilla withdrawal. The first contingent of Palestinians would begin leaving by sea in the afternoon of the same day.

As more guerrillas leave over the next 14 days, additional units of the multinational force and the Lebanese Army would take up positions around Palestinian refugee camps and other sites in west Beirut.

The Israelis are insisting that only units of the Lebanese Army enter west Beirut for the first seven days of the withdrawal. This is unacceptable to both the guerrillas and the Sunni Moslem leaders in west Beirut, who want international assurances that the Israelis and their Christian militia allies will not storm the area as soon as the P.L.O. is removed.

''We will never accept the Trojan horse of the Lebanese Army in west Beirut before the multinational force,'' Mr. Hawatmeh said. ''Do you really think we can trust an army that would not fire one single bullet to stop the Israelis from entering the seat of the Lebanese Government in Baabda to protect us?''

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