Word: habib
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Lebanon had been relatively quiet since July 24, when U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib helped to arrange a de facto cease-fire between Israel and the P.L.O. But last week, in addition to the bombings, there were other ominous rumblings. Israeli jets flying routine reconnaissance missions over Beirut and southern Lebanon were fired upon by the P.L.O., and Israeli military officials charged that the Palestinians were moving new military equipment into the south in violation of the ceasefire. The cauldron of Lebanon seemed set to begin boiling yet again...
...animosities involved that the Israelis might reject out of hand any proposal made by the Palestine Liberation Organization or its Syrian allies; the Palestinians and Syrians will have no truck with anything that originates in Jerusalem. Israeli sources claimed that the plan had been proposed by Philip Habib, the special U.S. envoy to the Middle East. American diplomats insist that the U.S. has not put forward a comprehensive proposal. As outlined by Israeli officials, perhaps as a trial balloon they hope to shoot down, the plan involves three stages of diplomatic and military movements...
...Habib's combination of patience, discretion, endurance and shrewd calculation flowered in 1968, when he was appointed No. 3 man at the frustrating Paris peace talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, where Harriman was chief negotiator. Cyrus Vance, Habib's immediate superior and later Secretary of State, recalls Habib's meticulous allnight preparations of U.S. positions. The observant diplomat once advised his American colleagues to look under the bargaining table while dealing with the impassive North Vietnamese, since "you can tell when they're unsure of themselves by the way they cross and uncross...
...Habib headed the U.S. peace delegation from 1969 to 1971, then took over for three years as a highly popular Ambassador to South Korea. Later, back in Washington, Habib worked closely with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on his many Middle East shuttles...
...working 9 to 5 and if your wife is contented," Habib once said, "you are not doing your job." A certified workaholic (albeit happily married for 38 years, with two daughters, 29 and 26), Habib finally suffered a series of four heart attacks, which led to his early retirement...