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...They were fighting for the life of the Camp David peace talks," declared an American official last week, and so it seemed. For more than two days, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Sol Linowitz haggled vigorously with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Finally, after his last two-hour session with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Lino witz emerged with an unmistakable ex pression of satisfaction on his face. Less than a day later, the reason became clear...
...parliament passed a bill affirming Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem. Linowitz's task was further complicated by Israel's truculent reaction to a series of diplomatic rebuffs at the U.N., and its reasserted plans to establish six new Jewish settlements on the West Bank. The American envoy was also concerned about the distracting influence of West European initiatives in the Middle East, including a current peace mission by Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn. The Camp David negotiations, declared Linowitz sharply, are "the only game in town...
...large colony of American businessmen, for example, were displeased that he spoke no Spanish and had no diplomatic experience. The White House, moreover, felt he had confused the delicate negotiations for the importing of Mexican natural gas in September 1979. Just a month later, Lucey resigned as envoy and became deputy director of Edward Kennedy's campaign against Carter...
...time of the Cleveland rally and might have gone unnoticed if campaign staffers had not thought of sending a mission to Peking as a means of showing the ticket's concern about foreign affairs. Reagan's staffers decided to send Bush, who had been a former envoy to Peking. No one on the staff had the wit or prescience to draw up a position paper to help either Bush or Reagan when tough questions about Taiwan came up on both sides of the Pacific...
...Jerusalem is different from any other city I've ever seen," said Venezuelan Ambassador Luis La Corte. "Its air, its light, its physical presence make it a completely distinct town. I will miss it very much." With sad resignation, Panama's Marina Mayo, at 35 the youngest envoy and the only female, took a soldierly view. "You have to follow orders," she said. "One is not entitled to personal feelings." Not so the Dominican Republic's José Villanueva, 60, the popular dean of the city's diplomatic corps who has lived in Jerusalem...