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...Special Envoy Philip Habib finally seemed on the verge of achieving a deal that would defuse tensions over Syrian antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. The surprise Israeli raid altered those priorities -and the attention the White House had hoped to focus on them-and presented the President and his chief advisers with their most delicate foreign policy test since Reagan took office...
...summit bought time until U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib could return from consultations in Washington and this week resume his shuttle diplomacy between Middle East capitals...
...shooting. He spent a half hour with Iosif Mendelevich, a Soviet dissident who just finished serving eleven years in a jail in his homeland, and Avital Shcharansky, whose husband Anatoli remains imprisoned in the Soviet Union. At week's end he conferred with Philip C. Habib, his special envoy to the Middle East, who has been working for the past month to defuse the Israeli-Syrian crisis. Habib, at Reagan's request, will return to the Middle East this week to continue his shuttle diplomacy (see WORLD...
...time for us to have a talk, and then maybe he'll be back." So saying, President Reagan last week recalled to Washington his special Middle East envoy, Philip Habib, for consultations about the continuing crisis between Israel and Syria. Habib himself said he was convinced, after three weeks of shuttling between various capitals in the region, that neither side wanted to go to war. The President praised Habib's peace mission as "a tremendously successful, almost miraculous thing" that had succeeded in staving off a military conflict even if no acceptable formula for a resolution...
...Minister Menachem Begin made the surprising announcement that his Cabinet had unanimously voted "to put no time limit whatsoever" on Habib's efforts to solve the problem through diplomatic channels. At the outset of the crisis, Begin had darkly hinted that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's envoy had only a week to work his magic, or Israel would attack the missiles. Two days after the Cabinet meeting, in what seemed to be a reassuring signal to Syria's President Hafez Assad, Begin spoke before a gathering of war veterans and flatly declared that Israel would...