Word: habib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to send its armed forces into Muslim-dominated West Beirut last week following the assassination of Lebanon's President-elect Bashir Gemayel. The Israeli action alarmed the U.S., which saw it as a violation of a promise the Israelis made this summer to U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib while he was negotiating the withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from West Beirut. It frightened the Lebanese capital's Muslim population, infuriated the governments of other Arab states, and led to a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on the Israelis to withdraw from Beirut. But no one could have...
While Lebanon's leaders were struggling to settle the political crisis that followed Gemayel's death, the Israelis were busy taking over West Beirut, a goal long desired by Israeli Defense Minister Sharon but denied him by the peace talks led by U.S. Special Envoy Habib. The local Muslim population was alarmed at the Israeli advance: most of the Palestinian guerrillas were gone, and the French, Italian and American peace-keeping forces had also departed. Just before an Israeli column reached the U.S. embassy in West Beirut, the Israeli troops were ordered by radio to avoid shooting at the embassy...
...parallel U.S. priority is to secure the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon. Last week President Reagan announced that he would send Morris Draper, a career diplomat who has been serving as Special Envoy Philip Habib's top deputy in Lebanon, back to Beirut to try to bring about the evacuation of all foreign troops. At the same time, Reagan presented Habib with a Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Habib will return to Lebanon to attend the inauguration of President-elect Gemayel later this month, but has no specific plans after that...
...Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to Special Envoy Philip Habib. Because of his diplomatic skills, Lebanon may once again live in peace...
...Tunisia, President Habib Bourguiba welcomed a contingent of 1,100 Palestinians who arrived Saturday by sea. The Tunisians had been busy last week erecting a tent village near Béja, 60 miles from Tunis, for the guerrillas. They were also refurbishing the Salwa Hotel at Borj Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes...