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...Jesse Jackson, the Democratic presidential aspirant whose audacious diplomacy won Goodman his freedom. And there, in the middle, was Ronald Reagan, who a week earlier had declined to take Jackson's calls before the Baptist minister left for Damascus. But now the President graciously thanked the amateur envoy for his "personal mission of mercy." Any questions about Syrian President Hafez Assad's motives for releasing Goodman or the propriety of Jackson's engaging in foreign negotiations were lost in the fervor of the moment. As Reagan put it, "You don't quarrel with success...
...political murders being carried out by right-wing extremists. Henry Kissinger, along with eight members of the bipartisan presidential commission he heads, was in Mexico and Venezuela gathering fact and opinion for the report that is scheduled to go to the President in early January. U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met with the President-elect of Venezuela and the President of Colombia...
Even as the big guns of the New Jersey were firing last week, U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld was in Damascus conferring with Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. Little was accomplished, but the fact that the session was held at all was an achievement of sorts. In the streets of the capital, 50,000 Syrians rallied to praise President Hafez Assad and to demonstrate against U.S. mili military power...
...front. Nonetheless, the Administration maintained that it was making some progress. The Syrians are still dealing with the U.S. Ambassador in Damascus, and have generally been less bellicose in private than in their public utterances. They have also said that they are still prepared to talk to U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld...
...recommendation was an explosive one, discussed in secret in a National Security Council meeting. Robert McFarlane, then the special envoy to the Middle East, was urging the President to order air strikes against Syrian positions in Lebanon. But the next day, even as McFarlane toured the troubled region, all three major television networks had stories on the classified proposal...