Word: habib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philip Habib, an envoy for all seasons...
...rising over Washington when, promptly at 7 a.m. last Wednesday, Vice President George Bush convened a special high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. National Security Adviser William Clark was there, along with CIA Chief William Casey, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had been hastily summoned home from his diplomatic shuttle in the Middle East. The purpose of the gathering: to find a way to break the impasse in negotiations to secure the withdrawal of Israeli,. Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization troops from Lebanon. The mood was somber. "Everyone in the Administration...
...President Reagan offered his own plan, drawing positive reactions from much of the Arab world, the initiative appeared to be stalled. Last week, impatient that so little progress was being made on even the relatively simple matter of troop withdrawal, the Administration dispatched its chief Middle East negotiator, Philip Habib, back to the area. The U.S. had hoped that the 45,000 Israeli soldiers, 30,000 Syrian troops and 7,000 Palestinian fighters still in Lebanon would be gone by the end of the year. Now the Administration will be satisfied if the withdrawal has begun by then...
...Washington, Administration officials were mildly optimistic that an agreement would soon be reached to remove all foreign armies from Lebanon: some 5,000 to 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas and 30,000 Syrian and 70,000 Israeli troops. Special Envoy Philip Habib and others were working on a detailed plan for phased withdrawals that will be presented to Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir this week in Washington. But many obstacles must be overcome. Last week Syrian President Hafez Assad informed Habib and his deputy in the Middle East, U.S. Ambassador Morris Draper, that Israeli forces would have to withdraw first...
Also seeking to foster unity, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib arrived in the capital late last week for talks with the new Lebanese President. Habib was returning from meetings in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where he had sought support for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon and for Reagan's Middle East peace proposals. In Jerusalem, meanwhile, a massive outpouring of public criticism forced Prime Minister Begin to agree to a full-scale judicial investigation of Israel's role in the refugee-camp massacre, a process that might ultimately lead to the fall...