Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Envoy Habib struggles to defuse the missile crisis...
...deployment of the Soviet-made missiles, and there was always the grave risk that one side or the other could miscalculate and ignite the region in conflict. But for the first time since the confrontation began, there was cautious optimism in both Jerusalem and Damascus that U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, 61, might succeed, through his patient, peripatetic diplomatic shuttle, in fashioning a resolution to the crisis-a mission that was given virtually no chance of success when he undertook it three weeks...
...danger that the Middle East was storming toward a major conflict added a special urgency to the elaborate U.S. peace mission: a hectic diplomatic shuttle between Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem by Special Envoy Philip Habib. After meeting with Begin early in the week, Habib went to Beirut for talks with Lebanon's President, Elias Sarkis. Then he climbed back into his black limousine for a midnight drive to Damascus, where he met for the second time with Syria's President, Hafez Assad, to impress upon him the need for restraint while trying to coax concessions that might break...
...greater sense of concern about Soviet imperialism in the Middle Eastern area." Despite Iraq's intense enmity toward Israel, and the fact that it has no diplomatic relations with the U.S., Haig said the situation should be reassessed because it is "not irreversible." In fact, an American envoy may be dispatched there next month to give Iraq's leftist government a report on Haig's forthcoming trip to Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
...foreign affairs at his confirmation was proposed for State by Californians on the White House staff to keep an eye on Haig, whom they did not know. Ironically, the selection has turned out Haig's advantage. Clark has become admirer of the Secretary and something of a Haig envoy to the White House...