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...Secretary of State Harold Saunders, who gave Jordan's King Hussein the official U.S. answers to 14 questions that the King had raised about the Camp David accords. Saunders, at various times a CIA, National Security Council and State Department specialist in Middle East affairs, is a respected Arabist. Selective leaks of his purported answers to Hussein tended to fuel Jerusalem's suspicions that the State Department, if not the White House, had an anti-Israel bias...
...third caucus over Lebanon was called by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who summoned the ambassadors from four Arab capitals to Paris for a meeting last week. Joining the group was Talcott Seeyle, 54, a longtime Arabist and former ambassador to Tunisia, whom President Ford appointed "special representative" to Lebanon after the murder of Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr. (TIME, June 28). The fact that Ford named Seeyle special representative instead of ambassador led to speculation that Washington intended to shut down its embassy in Beirut. White House officials said it was simply a means of circumventing the nomination process...
...Palestinians living in Lebanon had so much power. Beyond that, Washington has not had its top representative in Beirut since January: Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley is on sick leave recovering from a throat cancer operation. But last week the State Department summoned L. Dean Brown, 55, a highly regarded Arabist, out of retirement to troubleshoot in the beleaguered city...
...Arabist, the writer was appointed Ambassador to Egypt in 1967. His service was interrupted, however, because diplomatic relations were severed as a result...
...because Kissinger does not always have the final say in the selection of ambassadors. Two important posts, however, have been filled during Kissinger's tenure as Secretary with promising results. In Egypt, where President Sadat has resumed diplomatic relations that were broken off by the 1967 war, Careerman and Arabist Hermann Eilts, 52, like Kissinger an emigrant from Germany in his youth, has assumed the re-established ambassador's post...