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...spoken to him of a "massacre" or of "slaughter," but had used the Hebrew word histolelut, which means wild behavior. Shamir further testified that, a short time after receiving Zipori's call, he held a previously scheduled meeting with Sharon, top Israeli intelligence officials and U.S. Special Envoy Morris Draper without bothering to mention Zipori's call to any of them. How could he have failed to share the disconcerting report with his colleagues, the commission members wondered. Replied Shamir: "I didn't ask, and I don't recall that it bothered me, since...
There was nothing hesitant, however, about the way he greeted the visitors, who included 32 heads of state, 15 Prime Ministers, 14 foreign ministers and four princes. Filing in first were the envoys from the Communist states of Eastern Europe. Andropov expressed no particular warmth toward General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's military ruler. Next came such allies as Cuban Party Chief Fidel Castro and Afghan President Babrak Karmal. They passed by briskly, exchanging only a few phrases with Andropov. But when Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua extended his hand toward Andropov's, the slow-moving queue of dignitaries...
...younger Anderson was a prominent Boston-area philanthropist who worked as a diplomat in the Administration of then-President William Howard Taft, as an "envoy extraordinarie" to Belgium, Japan, and Rome...
...Washington, Administration officials were mildly optimistic that an agreement would soon be reached to remove all foreign armies from Lebanon: some 5,000 to 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas and 30,000 Syrian and 70,000 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib and others were working on a detailed plan for phased withdrawals that will be presented to Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir this week in Washington. But many obstacles must be overcome. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad informed Habib and his deputy in the Middle East, U.S. Ambassador Morris Draper, that Israeli forces would have to withdraw first...
Also seeking to foster unity, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib arrived in the capital late last week for talks with the new Lebanese President. Habib was returning from meetings in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where he had sought support for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon and for Reagan's Middle East peace proposals. In Jerusalem, meanwhile, a massive outpouring of public criticism forced Prime Minister Begin to agree to a full-scale judicial investigation of Israel's role in the refugee-camp massacre, a process that might ultimately lead to the fall...