Word: habib
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...week of the continuing tension in the Middle East. The Soviet Union and Syria conducted joint naval maneuvers, a blunt reminder to the Israelis that they could be borrowing trouble if, as Begin had warned, they tried to knock out the Syrian missile sites in Lebanon. U.S. Envoy Philip Habib returned to the Middle East to try again to settle the Syrian-Israeli dispute, but so far neither side seems ready to budge. Complained Begin, a bit sanctimoniously: "With all due respect to my dear friend Philip, he didn't solve the problem...
Club membership rose from a handful to 30 or 40 students following Ronald Reagan's conservative landslide. Habib Malik, another graduate advisor to the club, said earlier this sumer. Malik attributed the jump to "disappointment and disgruntlement with the liberal orthodoxy on campus...
...Socialist President Francois Mitterrand (see WORLD). Secretary of State Alexander Haig returned to Washington after a two-week trip that included stops in Peking, Manila and Wellington, New Zealand, where he sought to solidify America's ties with its allies in the Pacific. Special Envoy Philip Habib was still shuttling in the Middle East. At home, however, a honeymoon tolerance of the Administration's shaky start in foreign affairs was ending. Some barbed questions were being asked: Did Reagan really have any foreign policy? Did those globetrotters have any central policy compass to help them reach compatible goals...
...main casualty of the Israeli attack on the reactor appeared to be the peace mission of U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib and his efforts to resolve the issue posed by Syria's missiles in Lebanon. Even the moderate Saudis were distinctly cool during Habib's last round of visits before he headed home for consultations. Said a Lebanese official who is in close touch with the Palestinians: "The Arabs view the raid on Iraq as a demonstration that the Israelis are America's policeman in the Middle East...
Beyond the immediate fallout from the attack on Israeli-U.S. relations, the Administration was concerned about the consequent heightening of tensions throughout the Middle East. The Israeli strike immensely complicated, and may have destroyed, any hope that Philip Habib, Reagan's special Middle East envoy, could find a solution to the crisis over Syria's antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Last week Habib continued his round-robin shuttle, conferring first with Saudi officials in Riyadh, then with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, next with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Jerusalem and at week...