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...fighter-bombers were shot down and Goodman was captured. The new mood could be seen in small ways: Syrian television and newspapers carried the full text of Reagan's note to Assad, while the U.S. President expressed a willingness to meet with the Syrian leader. Donald Rumsfeld, Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, is now expected to see Assad on his current swing through the region...
...Goodman's release startled Washington, it did not surprise the supremely confident Jackson. Two weeks ago, .he learned through press reports that Rumsfeld had not even mentioned Goodman during talks in Damascus. Jackson blasted the Administration for not doing enough to free the airman, and within days the Syrians said he would be welcome in Damascus. He insisted he would not go if Reagan asked him not to, but four telephone calls to the President went unreturned...
Even as the big guns of the New Jersey were firing last week, U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld was in Damascus conferring with Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. Little was accomplished, but the fact that the session was held at all was an achievement of sorts. In the streets of the capital, 50,000 Syrians rallied to praise President Hafez Assad and to demonstrate against U.S. mili military power...
...Though Rumsfeld did not meet with Assad, that privilege was reserved for Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal. He became the first foreign visi tor to meet with Assad since Nov. 9, when the Syrian President dropped out of sight after suffering from what the government officially labeled as appendicitis. In television footage aired after the meeting with the prince, Assad looked wan and fragile. Whether he remained seriously ill and will require a long period of convalescence, as many reports have suggested, was a secret the Syrians were keeping to themselves...
...Administration maintained that it was making some progress. The Syrians are still dealing with the U.S. Ambassador in Damascus, and have generally been less bellicose in private than in their public utterances. They have also said that they are still prepared to talk to U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld...