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...sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which recommended a $5 billion clean-up plan...
Reagan's special envoy to the region, Philip Habib, has insisted that privately most of these governments, as well as those of Nicaragua's immediate neighbors, support the U.S. policy. They cannot say so publicly, he asserts, for fear of provoking the Sandinistas. In their hearts, says another Western diplomat in the region, most Central American leaders "wish the Sandinistas would disappear...
After special envoy Philip Habib maintained that President Reagan's proposal has strong support among Central American officials, the White House said calls and wires had shown that by a better than 2-1 margin, people were responding positively to Reagan's nationally broadcast Sunday night appeal for support for the aid program...
...pluralism that was promised by their 1979 revolution and end their support for Communist revolutions elsewhere in Central America. To persuade Congress that he was in fact pursuing both tracks, and to underscore the connection he sees between the Philippines and Nicaragua, the President last Friday appointed as special envoy to the region Diplomat Philip Habib, who had hours earlier returned from his troubleshooter mission in Manila...
...governing. In keeping with its spontaneous beginnings, the new administration had a decidedly makeshift look about it. In the building that had served as her campaign headquarters, Aquino aides rubbed shoulders with foreign ambassadors, job seekers and influence peddlers. There, the Philippine President met with U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, who was dispatched last week by Reagan to convey his "warmest greetings" to the new government. Outside, a carnival atmosphere prevailed. The building's small parking lot was filled to overflowing with cars, jeepneys and diplomatic limousines, as vendors sold soft drinks and snacks to drivers and security guards...