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...Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, is also deeply involved in SALT. No steps in Carter's troop-reduction plans for Korea are taken without consulting Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. The longtime career diplomats at State also have more influence. Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, is with Vance in the Middle East, and will accompany him later to China. George Vest, a 30-year State veteran, is Assistant Secretary for European Affairs and is significantly helping to coordinate Soviet-American relations...
...rules of fair play in dealing with the Carter team. He will not talk to any visiting dignitary until after the man has seen the President or Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Then, after meeting with the visitor, Kissinger immediately phones a report to Vance or Under Secretary Philip Habib...
South Korean President Park Chung Hee was formally notified of U.S. plans for the troop withdrawal last week by Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During a three-hour session in the Blue House, the presidential mansion in central Seoul, Park took the news-by then hardly a surprise-calmly and thanked his visitors for all the U.S. has done for his country. He was aware, Park said, that the G.I.s could not remain in Korea forever...
Well before last week's visit to Seoul by Under Secretary of State Philip Habib and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Asian leaders were getting seriously worried about U.S. foreign policy in the Pacific. Time Inc. Corporate Editor Ralph Graves talked with several of them during a three-week visit to South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. His assessment of Asian attitudes...
Stung Again. The possibility of all-out war stirred fears throughout the Arab world. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr telephoned Hassan and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne to urge a ceasefire. Syria's Hafez Assad dispatched Vice Premier Mohammed Haidar and Chief of Staff General Hikmat Chehabi to Algiers and Rabat to try to defuse what Damascus radio called "the explosive situation...