Word: dobrynins
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...warned Dobrynin: "We are now going to wash our hands of it and let nature take its course." I informed the British Ambassador, Lord Cromer, that we were starting an airlift to Israel. Cromer asked: "What will be your posture when the Arabs start screaming oil at you?" "Defiance," I replied, playing Churchill. "Just defiance?" queried Cromer. "It is going to be rough, won't it?" "We have no choice," I said...
Meanwhile, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, in a rare display of joint concern, consulted about the best way of cutting the fuse in Lebanon. Three times in nine days, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called at the State Department. Moscow also dispatched its own emissary-Georgi Kornienko, First Deputy Foreign Minister -to tour the region in the same fashion as Habib. One Palestinian leader in Lebanon wryly reported that Soviet embassy officials had visited him, asking, "What do you think is going to happen? What does it mean?" He added: "They only come around when they are worried...
...Alexander Haig called a "very, very tense" situation. In Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis told Begin bluntly that the U.S. was terribly worried about the possible escalation. In Washington, a task force was set up to monitor events. Under Secretary of State Walter Stoessel met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and urged the So viets to restrain their Syrian ally. Meanwhile, the State Department scrambled to disavow any responsibility for approving the Israeli operation. Said State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer: "I want to make it fully clear that the U.S. has not given a green light to Israel to undertake...
...Washington press corps (who need a "manual on the fundamentals of courtesy"). There are signs of recovery, though; President Reagan has restored "dignity to realms where there recently had been mawkishness and amateurism unsurpassed in American history," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig has refused Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin access to an underground garage operated by the State Department...
...first casualty of the new chill was that enduring symbol of detente, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. During the past three Administrations, Dobrynin has been allowed to slip into the State Department building through its underground garage, thus keeping his visits private. But last week the Ambassador was informed that henceforth he must enter via the front door like all the other envoys. When his limousine nevertheless approached the garage as usual, it was turned back, a rebuff that seemed to underscore the verbal bellicosity...