Word: habib
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South Korean President Park Chung Hee was formally notified of U.S. plans for the troop withdrawal last week by Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During a three-hour session in the Blue House, the presidential mansion in central Seoul, Park took the news-by then hardly a surprise-calmly and thanked his visitors for all the U.S. has done for his country. He was aware, Park said, that the G.I.s could not remain in Korea forever...
Well before last week's visit to Seoul by Under Secretary of State Philip Habib and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Asian leaders were getting seriously worried about U.S. foreign policy in the Pacific. Time Inc. Corporate Editor Ralph Graves talked with several of them during a three-week visit to South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. His assessment of Asian attitudes...
Stung Again. The possibility of all-out war stirred fears throughout the Arab world. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr telephoned Hassan and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne to urge a ceasefire. Syria's Hafez Assad dispatched Vice Premier Mohammed Haidar and Chief of Staff General Hikmat Chehabi to Algiers and Rabat to try to defuse what Damascus radio called "the explosive situation...
...into strategic positions throughout the city. Within hours, every Arab government had proclaimed extended periods of mourning. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who had received extensive aid and political support from the Saudi King, called Faisal "a tireless fighter for the Arab cause." Tunisia's aging President Habib Bourguiba, who described Faisal as a friend of 30 years and "a force for stability and moderation," broke off a meeting with Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to head for Riyadh and join a procession of foreign leaders flying in for Faisal's funeral...
...Middle East's chronically unsuccessful suitor, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seems to need the services of a professional matchmaker. All his past efforts to join Libya with other Arab countries have failed. Now Libya's betrothal to Tunisia, which Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba happily announced in mid-January, has apparently been broken...