Word: envoy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with Lebanon. Even more ominous, they transported SA-6 and SA-8 mobile missile batteries into Lebanon to positions along the Damascus-Beirut Highway and around Baalbek. The Israelis, concerned that the Syrian reinforcements would make Israeli reconnaissance flights exceedingly dangerous, asked the U.S. for help. Acknowledging to U.S. Envoy Richard Murphy that Israel had erred in firing at the Syrian planes, Peres persuaded the American, who was in Damascus at the time, to urge President Hafez Assad to withdraw the missile batteries...
...Italian military at the Sigonella NATO base, where the EgyptAir Boeing first landed. Local police reported that tensions between the two allies turned ugly when the U.S. special Delta Force saw its prey being taken from it. Nevertheless, the clash never went beyond raised voices. Said Craxi Envoy Antonio Badini, who negotiated the surrender of the four terrorists to Italian authorities: "Abbas' role appeared to us of secondary significance." More important, he said, "was our respect for international law, our relations with Egypt...
...Reagan Administration last week stood largely on the sidelines. The Administration's major Middle East initiative was to appoint a new special envoy for the peace process, to be stationed permanently in the region. The superdiplomat: Wat Cluverius, 50, a respected Middle East expert and former U.S. consul general in East Jerusalem. Cluverius will handle chores previously assigned to Assistant Secretary of State Murphy, who has shuttled between Washington and the Middle East since February...
DIED. Samantha Smith, 13, Maine student whose 1982 letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov asking how he would "help to not have a war" brought her international celebrity as a peace envoy; with her father and six other people in the crash of a commuter plane; in Auburn, Me. Andropov's unexpected reply included an invitation to come and see for herself how much the Soviet people wanted peace. She did, on a much publicized two-week tour of the U.S.S.R. in the summer of 1983. That trip led to TV talk-show appearances, interviews with adults on a children...
Reagan approved this approach and told McFarlane, who knew Berri from his % days as a special Middle East envoy in 1983, to use this relationship to put pressure on the Amal leader. In the middle of the night, from his suburban Maryland home, McFarlane spoke with Berri. During the 30-minute conversation, he passed along the message that had been worked out at the NSC meeting. Washington would not join in arrangements to free Israel's 776 Lebanese prisoners while Americans were being held, McFarlane told Berri. "The thrust was to get across to Berri that the Shi'ite prisoners...