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...temporary accord will remain in place until Dec. 31. Meanwhile, trade officials will try to hammer out a permanent pact. "It buys time," concluded Frans Andriessen, vice president of the E.C. commission. Said a pleased Yeutter: "U.S. exports will be unharmed while we negotiate a fair settlement...
...aides as more of a true believer than Bork. Indeed, a few of Scalia's colleagues on the Court of Appeals suspect that he wrote an inordinate number of strongly worded dissenting and concurring opinions on the conservative side of cases simply to advertise that he was 100% in accord with Reagan's views...
After more than five years of adhering to a treaty that the Senate has never ratified and that Reagan the Candidate called "fatally flawed," hard- liners in the Administration have just about won their battle to render the accord null and void. In his announcement last week, Reagan stressed that the Poseidons were being dismantled primarily because they are old and inefficient and would cost too much to refurbish. Accusing the Soviets of committing a pattern of treaty violations, Reagan said that once the number of cruise missiles on B-52 bombers puts the U.S. over the SALT II limits...
...Administration hopes that the new contra accord will persuade Congress to approve the $100 million in military and humanitarian aid that is scheduled to come up for a vote this month. The Miami agreement, said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman, "is an extremely positive step in broadening the ) leadership of the resistance, strengthening civilian control and improving coordination of military activities." However, it is still too early to tell whether the compromise will survive. The road to contra unity is littered with earlier manifestoes for change and pledges of alliance...
...first time that Taipei had taken part in direct talks with Peking on any subject since 1949, when the mainland came under Communist control. And to some observers it signaled an unprecedented flexibility on the part of the Nationalist Chinese government. Under the accord, a crew from C.A.A.C. flew the plane to Hong Kong and turned the craft over to Taiwan. That represented a major concession by Peking's negotiators, who had originally demanded that Taiwan send a delegation to the mainland to pick up the jet. Taiwan rejected the proposal outright for fear that it might be misread...