Word: habib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba was genuinely ill with infectious hepatitis, Iraq's Hassan Bakr appeared to have a diplomatic ailment, and Syria's Noureddine Atassi simply stayed home. But every other leader of the Arab League nations, as well as Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat, at week's end converged on Rabat for the first Arab summit in two years. The dominant figure, of course, was Gamal Abdel Nasser. The principal aim of the Egyptian President was to try once again to unite the divided Arabs in order to exert increased pressure on Israel...
...said at his press conference, the chances for a negotiated settlement in Paris are "not good." He further implied that he had no immediate plans to replace his two chief delegates at the talks, Henry Cabot Lodge and Lawrence E. Walsh. Instead, the President named Career Diplomat Philip C. Habib, who served under Lodge and Averell Harriman, as acting chief of the delegation...
...were three days short of a Biblical record," said Foreign Minister Habib Bourguiba Jr. He was not smiling. For 38 days in September and October, rain fell steadily on Tunisia, leaving 600 people dead, destroying 70,000 homes, and making refugees of 300,000 of the nation's 4,500,000 people. Touring the country last week, TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers reported that the floods have set economic growth back five years...
...seeks to downgrade or break up the talks. But no successor to Lodge was named, and one White House source added that "I don't think we'll be in any hurry to replace him." That leaves a knowledgeable and able career diplomat, Philip Charles Habib, in charge of the delegation. He has been with the talks since they started in the Johnson Administration under Ambassador Averell Harriman and, says Lodge, "no one knows more about the issues than Phil-and no one can read between the lines the way he can." At the moment, there...
...negotiating team is a matter of no great moment seemed to be reflected in the announcement that Kaplan will not be replaced by a senior foreign-service officer "for the foreseeable future." The steadiest hand in the delegation thus remains that of the No. 3 negotiator, Philip Charles Habib, 49, a career diplomat from Brooklyn who has been with the talks since they started. He bridges the shift from Averell Harriman to Lodge as head of the delegation and seems to have the right temperament for staying with the dull proceedings. "I am a bureaucrat," he says without apology...