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...wife saying, "He tackled a job that couldn't be done ..." At the bottom was the kicker: "... and couldn't do it." If ever there was a job that seemed to defy success, it was the one Rumsfeld accepted last week from President Reagan: that of special envoy to the Middle East...
...National Security Council met Sunday to assess the impact of the attack on the Marines in Lebanon. Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, knew the scene of the carnage ultimately. For three months he had shuttled around the Middle East as the President's special envoy, trying to make sense of the region's complex web of rivalries and hatreds. No problem had preoccupied him as much as Lebanon; he had played a key role in arranging the latest ceasefire...
...great facility for detail, particularly in the arcane realm of nuclear arms control. Earlier this year he helped persuade Reagan to temper his arms-control stance to win congressional support for the MX missile. For the past twelve weeks he has performed ably as a special envoy to the Middle East, opening channels to Syria in the Lebanese negotiations. McFarlane is no theoretician in the Kissinger-Brzezinski mold, but he is intimate with the substance of national security. As a no-nonsense National Security Adviser, McFarlane would have a vastly better technical grounding than Clark and, perhaps as a result...
...arduous negotiations that led to the truce, Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar ibn Sultan and U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane purposely left certain provisions vague. The three main elements all require further tinkering: 1) the cease-fire will be monitored by "neutral observers"; 2) a Lebanese "security committee" will decide on a permanent force to patrol the Chouf Mountains; and 3) most important, Lebanon's major groups will be called together for a conference of national reconciliation. In addition to President Amin Gemayel, the dozen invitees include Camille Chamoun, head of the Christian Lebanese Front; Pierre Gemayel, the President...
Prince Bandar's royal blood and his savvy about American ways have given him access in Washington unmatched by any other envoy, including the Soviet Union's 21-year veteran Anatoli Dobrynin. The son of Defense Minister Sultan ibn Abdul Aziz and the nephew of King Fahd, Bandar is on a first-name basis with many Washington notables, and has entertained such officials as Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger at his McLean, Va., estate overlooking the Potomac. His $1.6 million Georgian brick house, complete with tennis court and swimming pool, happens...