On Cease-Fire, U.S. Diplomacy Again Takes a Go-It-Alone Path

By Tyler Marshall
Times Staff Writer

August 1 2006

WASHINGTON — Reeling from a week of diplomatic setbacks in the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice limped home Monday insisting that the United States would back a cease-fire agreement to end the war in Lebanon only if it contained the seeds of a long-term settlement to the crisis.

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