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...policy. He also complained that Vice President George Bush had been sent as head of the U.S. delegation to memorial services for the late King Khalid in Saudi Arabia, and that he had been cut off from cables addressed to the White House from the President's special envoy to the Middle East, Philip Habib. Unless things changed, and he had more influence on such decisions, Haig said, he would have to resign. Clark did nothing to discourage the Secretary, but tipped off Baker, Deaver and the President, with whom Haig had requested a meeting on Thursday morning...
...shuttle diplomacy chore: trying to arrange a negotiated settlement after the Falkland Islands takeover by Argentina. He made six flights between Washington, London and Buenos Aires, covering 32,965 miles. Haig really cannot be blamed for the fact that the effort failed. Still, if he had used as special envoy or the U.S. ambassadors in Buenos Aires and London, the failure would not have been so damaging to U.S. prestige. "Al had to do it himself, by himself," notes one of his advisers. "He's got this thing about coming to the rescue. Maybe it's the Kissinger...
...current cease fire, engineered by special U.S. envoy Philip C Habib, is the longest yet in the Lebanese fighting...
Seeking to head off a bloody showdown in Beirut, U.S. officials scrambled to restore the short-lived Israeli-P.L.O. cease-fire that had broken down on June 13. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, studiously keeping out of the public eye, worked tirelessly all week in Beirut. He met with Lebanese President Elias Sarkis and other members of the proposed National Salvation Committee in the hope of devising a coalition government representing all major Lebanese factions. Habib's goal: to encourage a united stand for negotiating an Israeli withdrawal and dealing with the P.L.O. and the Syrians...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib and leaders of Lebanon's warring factions sought desperately to concoct a truce, the roar of tanks and the thump of artillery fire threatened to make a mockery of their efforts. The 60,000-strong Israeli force, still trying to consolidate its control over southern Lebanon, advanced to the outskirts of Beirut. There the Israelis linked up with Christian Phalangist allies to impose a stranglehold over 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas and 1,500 Syrian soldiers trapped inside the western part of the city...