Word: habib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Organization Leader Yasser Arafat had no intention of leaving Beirut and that he was deliberately dragging his feet in order to avoid a direct Israeli attack on his stronghold. In East Beirut, the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, David Kimche, bluntly warned U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib that a final assault on the Palestinian positions could become inevitable, if the deadlock persists. Said Kimche: 'Time is running out. They better take us seriously...
Reagan also sent a message to Syria's President Hafez Assad, urging him to reconsider his refusal to accept the Palestinians. But Assad flatly turned Reagan down, stressing that Habib's prime mission should be not the evacuation of P.L.O. guerrillas but the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. In any event, the Syrians insisted, the P.L.O. leadership had made no formal request for sanctuary in Syria. Nonetheless, Arafat admitted in Beirut that a proposal for Syria to take in Palestinian fighters was "under discussion" and that he was interested in such a move because "my main headquarters...
...Western states. A battalion of 1,800 Marines, currently sailing with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, was ordered to prepare for possible deployment as part of a multinational peace-keeping force. Under the conditions laid down by Reagan, troops would be dispatched only if his special envoy, Philip Habib, can work out a peace arrangement among all the parties involved, and if at least one other nation, notably France, agrees to participate...
...send any forces into the Middle East. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said that Reagan had received the Soviet leader's letter in California and was working on a reply. But officials added that the Kremlin's discomfort would not affect U.S. plans if Habib's diplomatic efforts proved successful...
...Administration, but much to U.S. chagrin, it was made public early last week by the notoriously leaky Israeli government over the national radio network. Reagan confirmed the decision during his speech in Los Angeles, while White House spokesmen stressed that carrying out the proposal depended on the results of Habib's difficult and sensitive negotiations...