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A5 William J. Burns, Mr. Bush's newly appointed Middle East emissary, met separately with the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel against the backdrop of two bombings in West Jerusalem.

"He wanted to be striking a reasonable stance," said former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, whom Mr. Gore had appointed as his emissary to Tallahassee.

And there were moments when, like an excited child, he caught the arm of Khaldoon al-Mubarak, the man he has appointed as his emissary to run the club.

More broadly, though, he is a self-appointed emissary from the land once known as Pimería Alta, an interpreter of its culture, plants and people.

"We've gone way beyond Martha now, in a totally upscale direction," said Marian McEvoy, who as editor of House Beautiful, a high-end shelter magazine, is a self-appointed emissary to the upper crust.

Recently, though, he appointed a few emissaries, including Peggy Bonfield, a newly minted hypnotherapist whose family owned the city's first plus-size ladies' boutique.

In a separate interview later with the Al Arabiya news network, Sheik Khatib also suggested that Mr. Assad could appoint as an emissary his vice president, Farouk al-Shara, a longtime member of Mr. Assad's hierarchy who has been mentioned before by Arab diplomats as a possible political transition leader.

He fully emerged into the public eye only in Mr. Mubarak's last days, when Mr. Mubarak appointed him to be his emissary to the opposition and his chosen successor.

This panel, which is to be composed of eight lawmakers from each party and a pair of White House emissaries (or maybe 12 members appointed by Congress and six by the White House) would in either case require 14 out of the 18 votes to send a proposal to Congress.

In 1987, President Reagan appointed General John Vessey, a retired former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Special Emissary to Vietnam for P.O.W./M.I.A. affairs.

Al-Sattar, the personal emissary to Palestine of Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was appointed in the early 1960s director of Islamic Sciences at the ministry of education and co-authored numerous textbooks for the nascent Qatari school system that allowed for an approach that was not exclusively informed by Saudi interpretations of Wahhabism.