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...face of the growing international outcry over South Africa's practices, the Botha government is also trying to present a conciliatory foreign policy. First, it announced last week that it would comply with a 14-month-old, U.S.-brokered agreement and withdraw its troops from Angola. Then, appearing before Parliament, Botha agreed to allow neighboring Namibia's internal political organizations, both black and white, to form an interim administration with a bill of rights and a constitutional court and council. Though not amounting to full self-government, that generous-seeming offer aroused fears in the West that South Africa, which...
...Potsdam, and later at the U.S. military liaison mission house, U.S. and Soviet generals were quietly trying to sort out their differences over last month's slaying of Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. by a Soviet soldier. The officer was on duty in East Germany as part of the agreement between Washington and Moscow that each side can maintain military observers in the two Germanys. Out of the four-hour meeting, arranged by the State Department, came no apology and no promise of compensation by the Soviets, only that these issues would be referred to a "higher authority" in Moscow...
...Europe halted talks with Brazil about rescheduling payments on its $102 billion debt. One of the main reasons for the IMF's action was that Brazil's annual inflation rate has been running higher than 230%, far above the 120% target level set by the government in its loan agreement with the fund...
...temporary transfer of power. In 1966, when Lyndon Johnson went to the Bethesda National Naval Hospital for repair of an abdominal hernia, he summoned reporters to his bedside three hours after he left surgery to let them know he was very much in control. Under an informal agreement with Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey had been given permission to exercise the power of the Chief Executive if the President was unable...
...suicide drivers brought more terror to a long-suffering area, a Syrian-sponsored meeting of Lebanese Muslim leaders was gathering in Damascus to hammer out a new peace plan for Lebanon. After more than eleven hours of talks, Shi'ite, Sunni and Druze leaders announced a 16-point agreement. The accord was significant in that for the first time it proposed power sharing between Muslims and Christians on an equal basis. The agreement also promised to tighten security at the Beirut airport, a pledge that received warm approval from the Reagan Administration...