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...plan's architect, Arias has much at stake. The son of a wealthy coffee-plantation owner who studied in both the U.S. and England, Arias, 46, based his presidential campaign last year on the theme "Peace with Arias." On the day of his inauguration, he told U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs that the contras could no longer use a U.S.-built airstrip in northern Costa Rica, near the Nicaraguan border. When the order was ignored, Arias became more determined. A year later he unveiled a peace proposal that became the foundation for the accord adopted in Guatemala City. "Reagan believes that...
...provoked a shrill outcry in Tripoli. The Libyan news agency JANA called the raid a "combined Franco-American military action" and charged that Washington and Paris were "behind the aggression against Libya." In Paris, Libyan diplomats accused France of bearing "direct responsibility" for the escalation of the war. Libyan Ambassador Hamed el Houderi warned that "those who put oil on the fire risked getting burned...
...Washington, the reaction to the Iraqi resumption of the tanker war was thinly disguised exasperation. After the initial Iraqi air attacks, Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, summoned Iraqi Ambassador Nazir Hamdoon to his office for a firm dressing down. Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost later summed up the U.S. view by saying the Iraqi action was "very regrettable, extremely unfortunate." The timing of the raids was "deplorable," he said, both because they create a new threat to U.S. warships in the gulf and because they came at a moment when Iran...
...applaud Syria's efforts to free Glass, Washington announced last week that U.S. Ambassador William Eagleton would soon be returning to his post in Damascus for the first time in nine months. The U.S. had been particularly pleased that Syria had decided in June to shut down the Damascus office of Palestinian Terrorist Leader Abu Nidal. Given the degree of pressure that Syria was obviously exerting on his behalf, Glass speculated in an interview on ABC's Nightline that his release might have already been in the works and that "my escape may simply have jumped...
...would become permanent members of the Security Council. He got all the papers at once but created a bigger sensation by doling out his scoops for days, one at a time. The FBI was put on his trail; an enraged Secretary of State called up Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, demanding to know whether he had leaked. Halifax denied it, then barred Reston from the embassy. Actually, Reston's source was the Chinese...