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...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...
...three American teachers who had been seized more than three years ago from the campus of Beirut University College. Polhill, a New Yorker, was released to Syrian army officers near a seaside hotel in Beirut and then driven to Damascus, where he was handed over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian...
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...
...years before moving to Beirut. Sure enough, shortly after 10 p.m. last Monday his captors dropped off Singh in front of the former Kuwait embassy in southern Beirut. Placed under Syrian guard, he was quickly taken to Damascus and turned over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian. "The treatment was better than I expected," said Singh, a diabetic who was examined twice a week by a doctor during his captivity. "But there is no substitute for freedom in this world...