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...tension has been rising steadily since early January. At that time efforts to arrange a formal cease-fire were stalled by the insistence of Druze negotiators, along with their Syrian sponsors, that Gemayel's government abrogate its May 17 agreement with Israel, an accord that was supposed to be the vehicle for getting both Israeli and Syrian troops out of Lebanon. Convinced that U.S. political pressure will force Reagan to withdraw the 1,800-man Marine contingent, Syrian President Hafez Assad has continued to stand firm with his own 62,000 troops in Lebanon...
...concrete results of Zhao's visit-two bilateral agreements-were not major breakthroughs. The first extended an earlier accord that established the exchange of scientific information and personnel. The second paved the way for more specific agreements on joint development of offshore oil, coal and other sectors of the Chinese economy. Said one U.S. official: "It tells Chinese foreign-trading companies that it is all right to 'buy American...
More nettlesome was a planned accord on nuclear cooperation that would permit China to buy U.S. nuclear reactors and fuel for peaceful purposes. The agreement fell prey to Chinese misgivings over the congressionally mandated requirement that nuclear material not be reprocessed or transferred without U.S. approval. Prospects are slim that a compromise agreement can be worked out in time for Reagan's scheduled visit to Peking in April. Nonetheless. Administration officials were cheered by Zhao's verbal assurances that China intends to abide by the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it has refused to sign...
...discontent boiled over last May when the government tried to rotate southern army units to the north. The troops mutinied, charging that the move violated the 1972 accord. In crushing that uprising the government killed at least 70 mutineers. But the unrest continued. On Nov. 15, southern rebels kidnaped eleven British, French and Pakistani workers from the oilfields and the Jonglei Canal...
That Pennzoil-Getty accord, though, drew the attention of Texaco, based in White Plains, N.Y., which has also been looking for new supplies of crude oil. Texaco's total petroleum pool shrank 25% between 1979 and 1982, to about 1.9 billion bbl. With the addition of Getty's supply, Texaco's reserves would double...