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- DIED. Philip Habib, 72, leading career diplomat who
- influenced U.S. policy for three decades; of a heart attack; in
- Puligny-Montrachet, France. Habib was head of the peace talks
- in Paris that ended the Vietnam War. He helped arrange the
- cease-fire in Lebanon and the P.L.O.'S withdrawal from that
- country in 1982. He was also instrumental in persuading
- Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to go into exile in 1986.
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