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...biggest diplomatic challenges in the region is to launch a dialogue with Syria. Since McFarlane became special envoy last July, there seems to have been as much discussion between Washington and Damascus as during Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy of a decade ago. The Syrians feel they have long been neglected by the U.S., especially concerning their loss of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria during the 1967 war and has now virtually annexed...
...most of the week, the Administration was heartened by repeated predictions from the Middle East that the peacemaking efforts of U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane were about to pay off in the form of a ceasefire. By week's end it seemed clear, however, that the mission's chances for success were slim, largely because Syrian President Hafez Assad was determined either to bring down the Lebanese government of President Amin Gemayel or bend it to Syria's will...
...first of three held on the Lebanon crisis. The group reached general agreement that the U.S. Marine contingent would remain in place, at least for the time being, a view that was quickly approved by Reagan in California. Though realistic about its chances, Washington instructed Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, Robert McFarlane, to pressure President Amin Gemayel to continue trying to gather Lebanon's factions into a government of national reconciliation...
...Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles of U.S. diplomacy. Partly because Assad refused to see him again, Washington replaced U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib with Robert McFarlane. After his first meeting with the Syrian President three weeks ago, McFarlane left Damascus as frustrated and empty-handed as his predecessor...
...broken-telephone theory of international conflict, and it suggests a solution: repair service by the expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace academies, the mania for mediators, the belief that the world's conundrums would yield to the right intermediary, the right presidential envoy, the right socialist international delegation. Yet Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, to take just two candidates for the Roger Fisher School of Conflict Resolution, have perfectly adequate phone service. They need only an operator to make the connection. Their problem is that they have very...