Word: habib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rescue mission to Lebanon for the second time in less than a quarter-century.* In Beirut, meanwhile, intermittent Israeli shelling and the blockade of West Beirut at times kept the leaders of the various Lebanese factions from meeting with one another, and indeed brought U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib's delicate negotiations to a virtual standstill...
...President drafted a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, accusing him of obstructing U.S. efforts to reach an agreement over Beirut and warning Begin that the U.S. could even be forced to deal directly with the P.L.O. if he did not stop making it so difficult for Habib to negotiate with the Palestinians through intermediaries. When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis delivered the letter to Begin in person, the Israeli leader promised to cooperate, but he remained silent at the threat of U.S.-P.L.O. negotiations, especially at Lewis' news that Habib might be ordered to deal personally with...
...removed from the danger and discomfort of West Beirut, in both a physical and symbolic sense, was the residence of U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon. The house, from which Negotiator Habib has been operating for almost a month, is comfortably situated in the hills outside East Beirut. The tough and tight-lipped Habib has had little to say in public about the progress of negotiations, but it is known that he sternly told the Israelis to remove their ring of tanks from around the palace of his neighbor, Lebanese President Elias Sarkis, who happens to live across the road...
...would have been a daunting assignment for any diplomat: untangling the emotions of a region rent by hatred and factionalism. Philip Charles Habib, 62, the U.S. special envoy who has been at the center of the negotiations about the future of Beirut, brings a rare blend of talents to the task. The son of a Lebanese Catholic grocer, he combines the street smarts of his native Brooklyn with sensitivity to the mind-sets of both Arabs and Jews. Twice last week President Reagan went out of his way to praise Habib for "laboring heroically" to bring peace to Lebanon...
Since Secretary of State Alexander Haig's resignation, Reagan and National Security Adviser William Clark have come to rely more heavily on Habib's guidance. The President's decision to approve the principle of deploying U.S. troops in Lebanon came in response to Habib's request for authority to use the proposal as a bargaining tool. The special envoy has been equally assertive with the various Middle East factions. It was he who forced the Israelis to withdraw their tanks from the presidential palace in Baabda...