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...President had a platform at the summit from which he could charge the Soviet Union with arms-accord violations while demonstrating to America's allies that Canada is a strong supporter of U.S. military leadership. For , Mulroney, the summit provided an indication that his pro-American policies could pay off for Canada in everything from improved trade and investment to pollution control...
...defense accord upset some Canadians, who fear that it could involve their country in Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the space-based antimissile defense system better known as Star Wars. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger added to Canadian distress when he suggested in a television interview that American missiles could be stationed in Canada...
...ended in the mortifying withdrawal of U.S. troops early last year. For the past 13 months, U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East has essentially been on hold. The tragedies in Lebanon had resulted in a vague policy known as disengagement, a virtual do-nothing stance. When the U.S.-mediated accord between Israel and Lebanon crumbled in March 1984, Secretary of State George Shultz remarked bitterly that Middle East governments reluctant to accept American peace overtures "must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas...
...meeting could include members of the P.L.O., with which the U.S. and Israel refuse to bargain. Hussein and Arafat also endorsed a confederation of Jordan and a Palestinian state on the West Bank, but they gave little indication of how this new entity would be run. Moreover, their accord does not explicitly accept Israel's right to exist or U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for the exchange of Israeli-occupied territory for peace...
Well before the ground fighting erupted last week, both sides had broken an agreement, arranged nine months ago by the United Nations, to refrain from hitting civilian targets. Iraq, desperate to break the prevailing stalemate, was first to violate the accord with air raids against Iranian cities and towns. The response was swift: sirens wailed in Baghdad as Iranian jets swooped in, hitting a huge housing development called Saddam City. In the various attacks on civilians, at least 500 people were killed on both sides...