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...meantime the White House dispatched Philip Habib, a widely respected career diplomat who had retired in 1978, to mediate with the various parties. Habib promptly got a firsthand view of what the argument was all about. Since Beirut Airport was still closed as a result of shellings last month, he was forced to fly to Damascus and drive to Beirut. His route, as it turned out, took him right past the missile installations along the highway. Once in the Lebanese capital, he huddled with Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis before going on to Damascus and Jerusalem for similar discussions...
...joint concern, consulted about the best way of cutting the fuse in Lebanon. Three times in nine days, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called at the State Department. Moscow also dispatched its own emissary-Georgi Kornienko, First Deputy Foreign Minister -to tour the region in the same fashion as Habib. One Palestinian leader in Lebanon wryly reported that Soviet embassy officials had visited him, asking, "What do you think is going to happen? What does it mean?" He added: "They only come around when they are worried...
...week's end Habib declined to make any comment on his exhaustive round of talks except to note that the situation was still "dangerous." Even as sporadic explosions echoed throughout war-torn Beirut, Habib met with Christian Leaders Pierre and Bashir Gemayel, Walid Jumblatt, head of the leftist alliance, and former President Camille Chamoun, titular head of the right-wing Lebanese Front. The two groups have had an uneasy relationship since the end of the civil war between them in 1976. The talks were regarded as a sign that the U.S. intended to involve itself not only...
...case: "a fraud, a sham, a fake, a lie, a disgrace." The "trusting, easygoing" Williams, said Koelzer, had been taken in by a scheme "created, controlled, produced and directed" by FBI Informer Mel Weinberg. Moreover, said Koelzer, the defendant had refused to accept a bribe for helping Habib immigrate-a fact borne out by tapes introduced later in the week...
Tapes introduced by the prosecutor last week show him boasting to Habib of his connections with then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ("a neighbor back in New Jersey"), with Fritz Mondale ("the Vice President used to work for me," on a Senate committee) and with Howard Baker ("he's in the same class I am ... I'm just a little ahead of him in seniority"). Other tapes showed Co-defendant Alexander Feinberg, 72, Williams' personal attorney, discussing his role in the titanium deal with FBI Operative Weinberg, telling him that Williams is "happy as a lark about...