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Before Pazner's announcement, Lebanese press report said the main item in the "composite agenda" proposed by Habib's associate Morris Draper was ending the state of war between Israel and Lebanon which the cortically has existed since the armistice that ended the 1949 Arab-Israel...
Israeli purse reports had said Habib would bring Began a message from Reagan urging him to break the stale man and warning that lack of progress in the talks could mean postponement of his planned trip to Washington early this year...
...Philip Habib, an envoy for all seasons...
...rising over Washington when, promptly at 7 a.m. last Wednesday, Vice President George Bush convened a special high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. National Security Adviser William Clark was there, along with CIA Chief William Casey, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had been hastily summoned home from his diplomatic shuttle in the Middle East. The purpose of the gathering: to find a way to break the impasse in negotiations to secure the withdrawal of Israeli,. Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization troops from Lebanon. The mood was somber. "Everyone in the Administration...
...President Reagan offered his own plan, drawing positive reactions from much of the Arab world, the initiative appeared to be stalled. Last week, impatient that so little progress was being made on even the relatively simple matter of troop withdrawal, the Administration dispatched its chief Middle East negotiator, Philip Habib, back to the area. The U.S. had hoped that the 45,000 Israeli soldiers, 30,000 Syrian troops and 7,000 Palestinian fighters still in Lebanon would be gone by the end of the year. Now the Administration will be satisfied if the withdrawal has begun by then...