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PRESIDENT REAGAN trespassed a bit further on the freedom of the press last week when he ordered a Justice Department probe to discover who, among top administration officials, had leaked information that had jeopardized the safety of the administration's new top envoy to the Middle East Robert C. McFarlane. The President alleged that leaks about air-strikes--employed to ensure the safety of U.S. Marines in Lebanon--had endangered both McFarlane'x peace efforts and his personal safety. The FBI began questioning officials, cabinet members and foreign policy advisers, some of whom offered to take polygraph tests to insure...
...Middle East military equation. For a superpower, such a response would reverberate dangerously and complicate Washington's other goals. Meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned that Britain would not support U.S. strikes against Syrian targets. U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed to his post two weeks ago, planned to stop in London to see Thatcher before flying on to the Middle East this week...
...Israel's role in Lebanon. You know, sometimes it is enough to deter somebody with your existence, with your presence. The concept of [former U.S. Special Envoy] Philip Habib was to get us out of Lebanon. Now people would like to have us in Lebanon in order to deter the Syrians from exercising too much pressure on the Lebanese government and taking too much control of Lebanon. If we are not there, you don't have any leverage with the Syrians...
...recall a previous occasion when a Soviet Communist Party leader had failed to appear for the parade. Only a year earlier, the late Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, visibly ill, had endured three hours of icy temperatures on the reviewing stand. Three days later, he died. Said a prominent Western envoy in Moscow: "Brezhnev stood there on his dying feet, because not being there meant you had lost power and authority...
America's envoy offers his views on a tense relationship...