Word: djerejian
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...Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger noted last week, Rabin was a leader who "was not trying just to hang on and preserve, but to build." Now it is up to those who survive to build that legacy for him. "The peace process," says former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Edward Djerejian, "has always been a race against violence on the ground and the extremists." Rabin's death will not have been in vain if it helps the Middle East win that race...
After the World Trade Center bombing, Assistant Secretary of State Edward Djerejian told the U.S. Congress the sheik "did not give the accurate spelling of his name." Egyptian passports, however, give names in both Arabic and English. The English name on the sheik's passport, according to sources who have examined the document, was exactly the same as on AVLOS microfiche. "We had the right name, the right nationality and the right date of birth," says a senior official. The State Department is now trying to find out whether the embassy employee, who still works in Khartoum, made a mistake...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher, CIA chief R. James Woolsey, National Security Adviser W. Anthony Lake -- are Middle East experts. When they begin their Iraq policy review, they will have to rely on the holdover Bush specialists like Dennis Ross, former director of policy planning at State, and Edward Djerejian, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs...
Bush runs his own show, another lesson from the Reagan calamity. When the word came that Polhill's deliverance was imminent, the President was fishing off Key Largo, Fla. He got Ambassador to Syria Ed Djerejian on the phone before Djerejian was to pick up Polhill from the Syrian couriers. "Tell them that any improvement in relations is dependent on the release of all the hostages," Bush cautioned. Within five minutes of that phone call, Djerejian, who once worked in the Reagan White House, had Polhill in his car, heading back to the U.S.embassy...
Even so, the President was unwilling to let slip the possibility that a U.S. hostage might be set free. Though Kelly was held back, ambassador Djerejian hastily returned to Damascus from Bonn, where he had been attending a meeting of U.S. envoys. Angered by the U.S. refusal to dispatch Kelly, the IJLP issued a new statement, this time accompanied by a photograph of Polhill. The group announced that it had decided to "postpone this operation until the picture is cleared." Perhaps to dispel speculation that it had gone soft, it also threatened to attack airports and airlines involved in Jewish...