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...anti-Soviet sentiments aroused would make it possible to pass the MX in the Senate without any concessions on build-down. He was supported by Rowny and Kenneth Adelman, the head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But Duberstein kept the pressure on to continue to seek an accord with both groups in Congress...
...accept the agreement, Syria's Assad was reported to have imposed new conditions. He asked that the decisions of the proposed national reconciliation conference be binding upon the Lebanese government. In addition, Assad was said to be insisting that the conference take the position that the Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal accord be abandoned. And yet, just as Lebanon appeared headed for still another round of heavy fighting, McFarlane met with Gemayel this Sunday to tell him that the two sides had agreed, after all, to a ceasefire. Reagan later called Gemayel to congratulate him on the news...
Discussing the accord, theologians on the panel spoke of reaching a new tolerance for each other's views. H. George Anderson, co-chairman of the talks and president of lowa's Luther College, said that for Lutherans justification remains "the template, the pattern of how God and man relate. For Catholics, it is one doctrine among many." More basic, the Catholics on the panel assured the Lutherans that they believed that good works alone could not bring salvation, while the Lutherans declared that their emphasis upon faith and God's grace did not mean they rejected...
...everyone agrees in the abstract, the forces disrupting Lebanon have been boiling for centuries; the pressure first became unbearable in the 1950s when the British Empire withdrew from the region, leaving a precarious and artificial structure of accord among the country's factions. All U.S. negotiations, though, have followed an endless and fruitless circle, attempting and repeatedly failing to normalize the region as it now stands...
...quite that simple. The biggest stumbling block to an accord remains South Africa's insistence that Namibian independence be linked to the withdiawal of an estimated 30,000 Cuban Hoops in neighboring Angola. Although the issue was sidestepped last week, the negotiators had, as Perez de Cuellar put it, made "meaningful progress." The most significant accomplishment, perhaps, was intangible. The low-key Peruvian Secretary-General convinced the South African government that he was not biased in favor of the South-West Africa People's Organization of Namibia (SWAPO), the guerrilla group that has been fighting for Namibian independence...