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...time since the shooting. He spent a half hour with Iosif Mendelevich, a Soviet dissident who just finished serving eleven years in a jail in his homeland, and Avital Shcharansky, whose husband Anatoli remains imprisoned in the Soviet Union. At week's end he conferred with Philip C. Habib, his special envoy to the Middle East, who has been working for the past month to defuse the Israeli-Syrian crisis. Habib, at Reagan's request, will return to the Middle East this week to continue his shuttle diplomacy (see WORLD...
...Habib takes time out, Syria and Israel remain poised to fight...
...time for us to have a talk, and then maybe he'll be back." So saying, President Reagan last week recalled to Washington his special Middle East envoy, Philip Habib, for consultations about the continuing crisis between Israel and Syria. Habib himself said he was convinced, after three weeks of shuttling between various capitals in the region, that neither side wanted to go to war. The President praised Habib's peace mission as "a tremendously successful, almost miraculous thing" that had succeeded in staving off a military conflict even if no acceptable formula for a resolution...
...Administration continued to keep a tight lid on the substance of Habib's negotiations. They are believed to involve a complex set of trade-offs to persuade Syria to remove the three batteries of Soviet-made SA-6 missiles it deployed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Israel shot down two of its helicopters. Moreover, Habib was believed to be trying to devise a broader peace plan to eliminate the bloodletting that periodically tears at Lebanon's own internal politics. One reason he may have decided to interrupt his shuttle was to give Saudi Arabia time...
...week's end Habib arrived back in Beirut to the scream and thud of some of the heaviest shelling and artillery fire since the civil war. He needed no further reminder of the urgency of attaining a broader U.S. goal: to work out a settlement among the warring factions in Lebanon so that crises would not keep on exploding like a series of land mines. To that end, Habib has also been seeking ways to strengthen Lebanon's army, to get the Syrians to take more responsibility for disruptive left-wing activities in and around Beirut...