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...signs last week of the continuing tension in the Middle East. The Soviet Union and Syria conducted joint naval maneuvers, a blunt reminder to the Israelis that they could be borrowing trouble if, as Begin had warned, they tried to knock out the Syrian missile sites in Lebanon. U.S. Envoy Philip Habib returned to the Middle East to try again to settle the Syrian-Israeli dispute, but so far neither side seems ready to budge. Complained Begin, a bit sanctimoniously: "With all due respect to my dear friend Philip, he didn't solve the problem...
...France's new Socialist President Francois Mitterrand (see WORLD). Secretary of State Alexander Haig returned to Washington after a two-week trip that included stops in Peking, Manila and Wellington, New Zealand, where he sought to solidify America's ties with its allies in the Pacific. Special Envoy Philip Habib was still shuttling in the Middle East. At home, however, a honeymoon tolerance of the Administration's shaky start in foreign affairs was ending. Some barbed questions were being asked: Did Reagan really have any foreign policy? Did those globetrotters have any central policy compass to help...
...main casualty of the Israeli attack on the reactor appeared to be the peace mission of U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib and his efforts to resolve the issue posed by Syria's missiles in Lebanon. Even the moderate Saudis were distinctly cool during Habib's last round of visits before he headed home for consultations. Said a Lebanese official who is in close touch with the Palestinians: "The Arabs view the raid on Iraq as a demonstration that the Israelis are America's policeman in the Middle East...
Beyond the immediate fallout from the attack on Israeli-U.S. relations, the Administration was concerned about the consequent heightening of tensions throughout the Middle East. The Israeli strike immensely complicated, and may have destroyed, any hope that Philip Habib, Reagan's special Middle East envoy, could find a solution to the crisis over Syria's antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Last week Habib continued his round-robin shuttle, conferring first with Saudi officials in Riyadh, then with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, next with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Jerusalem and at week...
...moderate Arab regimes, which still see a U.S. hand behind any Israeli military adventure. The attack rendered far more difficult the simultaneous Reagan Administration bid to support Israel, cultivate Arab friendships and further the 1978 Camp David peace accord. The assault also imperiled the Lebanese peacemaking mission of U.S. Envoy Philip Habib, who returned to the Middle East last week after a 12-day absence. Habib had seemed close to working out an agreement among Israelis, Lebanese and Syrians that would cool the missile crisis in Lebanon. Indeed, the Israeli raid posed the question of whether...