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After 14 months of impasses on Star Wars and long-range weapons, Kampelman is cautiously hopeful that an agreement can be reached on the limitation of medium-range missiles. The Soviets are eager for some type of accord that Mikhail Gorbachev can point to if he joins Reagan at a summit this year. Last week they presented a draft treaty incorporating their earlier proposals for reducing medium-range weapons. Kampelman was quick to knock it down. "There was nothing new in that treaty," said the diplomat. "It was merely a formal treaty carrying out statements they had previously made...
...final document outlined specific steps that the seven nations agreed to apply against the governments of states that sponsor terrorism, singling out Libya. The accord includes limits on the size of diplomatic delegations, more stringent extradition arrangements and refusal to permit entry of any person expelled from another country for terrorist activities. At his Tokyo press conference, Reagan implied that the agreement actually went further. "We didn't think it was perhaps useful," he said, "to put all of that into a public statement telling terrorists exactly what it was we intended to do." Shultz, ordinarily Buddha-like, was downright...
...including the rapid rise and fall of the dollar over the past two years and the current dramatic appreciation of the yen, which has some Japanese exporters crying for help. Rather than bring back fixed rates, Baker's plan would employ a system dubbed the "managed float." Under the accord, the seven nations will try to control rates by coordinating action on the underlying fundamentals, such as budget deficits, trade balances, interest rates, inflation and unemployment. If necessary, there might be interventions in the currency markets by various government banks...
When news of the tentative decision leaked last month, it seemed a great victory for the State Department and arms-control advocates. To stay within the missile limits set by the unratified SALT II accord, President Reagan had agreed to dismantle two aging Poseidon submarines when a new Trident sub is launched this month. The complex compromise, reached at a secret National Security Council meeting, seemed to have something for each of the warring factions in the Administration: though it preserved SALT II for the moment, it also accelerated work on the small mobile missile known as the Midgetman...
Last week's acts of sabotage followed bloody clashes between rival rebel factions over how to respond to a visit by an Indian peace delegation to Colombo. The attacks would seem to indicate that the militant Tigers have triumphed and are intent on thwarting any accord between the government and more moderate Tamils. The Colombo government has rebuked the rebels for engaging in terrorist acts and promised that it "will not allow such acts of terrorism to affect the peace efforts...