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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...
...immediate casualty of the Israeli offensive was the fragile attempt to forge a unified government out of Lebanon's bitterly divided religious and political factions. With the help of Philip Habib, President Reagan's special envoy, Lebanese President Elias Sarkis had just succeeded in cobbling together a seven-man National Salvation Committee, representing the main factions of Lebanon's splintered society, to try to negotiate an Israeli withdrawal and set up a coalition government. At week's end, however, the committee was shaken by the resignations of two key members: Prime Minister Chafik Wazzan and Walid...
Until last week's resignations, the U.S. harbored faint hope about the National Salvation Committee's chances for success. Jumblatt had finally been persuaded by Habib to leave his native village in central Lebanon and join the negotiations. Habib provided Jumblatt with a car and a safe-conduct pass for his trip to the presidential palace in Baabda. That kind of skillful arranging was only one of the rare blend of talents that Habib, 62, brought to his latest daunting assignment. Last year it was the blunt-spoken Habib who persuaded Israel and the P.L.O. to accept...
...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...