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...member of the Foreign Service since 1949, Habib sharpened his skills as a negotiator while heading the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam from 1969 to 1971. He participated in many of Henry Kissinger's Middle East shuttles, and was called back from retirement in 1979 to serve as special adviser to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...Habib is a dedicated gourmand and a formidable poker player whose prowess at the card table is attributed by friends to his "uncanny knowledge of the people he plays with." One area in which Habib never gambles is his health. A survivor of bypass surgery and four heart attacks, he travels with a complete set of medical records, as well as medication and instructions on how it is to be administered. Although he has been unwilling to take on any full-time negotiating post because he thought the job would strain his physical abilities, Habib now finds himself involved...
...Cyprus, and from Cyprus by container ship from Limassol to Junieh, a small port in northern Lebanon. On the Friday before Rosenblatt's arrival, the Israelis dealt West Beirut the heaviest bombing and shelling of the war to that point. That same day Alexander Haig resigned and Philip Habib announced a "permanent cease-fire." On June 27, Israeli jets dropped a shower of pink leaflets, warning all civilians to get out of the city at once. Rosenblatt's journal begins the following morning...
...Western states. A battalion of 1,800 Marines, currently sailing with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, was ordered to prepare for possible deployment as part of a multinational peace-keeping force. Under the conditions laid down by Reagan, troops would be dispatched only if his special envoy, Philip Habib, can work out a peace arrangement among all the parties involved, and if at least one other nation, notably France, agrees to participate...
...Administration, but much to U.S. chagrin, it was made public early last week by the notoriously leaky Israeli government over the national radio network. Reagan confirmed the decision during his speech in Los Angeles, while White House spokesmen stressed that carrying out the proposal depended on the results of Habib's difficult and sensitive negotiations...