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...solution to the regional turmoil. This time, the invading Israelis had simply swept aside one of Washington's most valiant efforts at Middle East peace keeping to date: the fragile, unwritten cease-fire between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, crafted just eleven months earlier by U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib. Its collapse confronted Washington with one of the more awkward dilemmas it has faced in the explosive Middle East...
Despite rumblings for her dismissal, Kirkpatrick still enjoys the full backing of President Reagan. For now, her position as the Cabinet's leading neoconservative and only woman outweighs her liabilities as a diplomat. But, as happened with Jim my Carter's first U.N. envoy, Andrew Young, she is unlikely to stay at the U.N. a great deal longer even if she continues to have the support of the President. That much was clear from her speech last week. Arguing that the U.S. should be more professional in its approach to U.N. politics, Kirkpatrick noted parenthetically...
...Falklands war on hemispheric, as well as NATO, unity. Behind the scenes, the U.S. was continuing to prod Britain to adopt a more flexible stance toward the future of the Falklands after a military victory. According to the British, one U.S. plan, reportedly floated last week by Washington Special Envoy Vernon Walters, offered a four-part solution: 1) British repossession of the Falklands to be followed by installation of a multinational administrative authority including the U.S., Britain, Brazil and Jamaica; 2) British sovereignty to continue for the time being, but with London considering at least a partial transfer of authority...
Shortly after 11 p.m., Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, left a diplomatic dinner at London's Dorchester Hotel and walked toward his waiting car on fashionable Park Lane. Suddenly, a man who had been loitering near by opened fire on the Israeli envoy, wounding him critically. The gunman, later identified as an Arab student, was shot down by police as he attempted to get away...
...negotiating technique was to meet with each envoy separately. Sometimes the emissaries would come twice a day to his spacious 38th-floor office overlooking the East River. The Secretary-General would make an oral presentation to each on a point or two and then ask for comments. Each representative would then communicate with his home government. When the replies were disappointing, the Secretary-General would look for "some conciliatory U.N. formula." His worst fear, he said, was "the danger of a great military incident in the area. I am always wondering whether one of the parties would withdraw from...