Word: habib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President George Bush had been sent as head of the U.S. delegation to memorial services for the late King Khalid in Saudi Arabia, and that he had been cut off from cables addressed to the White House from the President's special envoy to the Middle East, Philip Habib. Unless things changed, and he had more influence on such decisions, Haig said, he would have to resign. Clark did nothing to discourage the Secretary, but tipped off Baker, Deaver and the President, with whom Haig had requested a meeting on Thursday morning...
...current cease fire, engineered by special U.S. envoy Philip C Habib, is the longest yet in the Lebanese fighting...
Arafat and several of his top aides conferred until the earls hours of the morning yesterday with Prime Minister Shafink Wazzan and former Prime Minister Saeb Salam Official sources said the Lebanese negotiators later informed President Elias Sarkis and Habib of the results of the bargaining session...
...Administration would not tolerate any deal that allowed the Christian Phalangist militia, acting as Jerusalem's proxies, to destroy the P.L.O. in Beirut. That, Haig said, would make unification of Lebanon impossible. As the talk went on, Haig got the feeling that Israel would accept any Lebanese government that Habib could patch together, as long as it was stable, friendly to Israel and determined to prevent the return of the P.L.O. as a military force...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib and leaders of Lebanon's warring factions sought desperately to concoct a truce, the roar of tanks and the thump of artillery fire threatened to make a mockery of their efforts. The 60,000-strong Israeli force, still trying to consolidate its control over southern Lebanon, advanced to the outskirts of Beirut. There the Israelis linked up with Christian Phalangist allies to impose a stranglehold over 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas and 1,500 Syrian soldiers trapped inside the western part of the city...