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...Nicaragua, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra's renewed calls for bilateral talks with Honduras were ostensibly aimed at relieving border tensions. Washington believes such conversations would run counter to the Contadora process, the regional effort to bring peace to Central America. The minister's brother, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, concluded his 25-day, 14-country tour of Eastern and Western Europe with the announcement that Moscow had agreed to supply up to 90% of Nicaragua's oil needs. Since estimates are that the Soviet Union already provides some 75% to 90% of Nicaragua's consumption...
...continue to press its allies to bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...
...known was Kozo Okamoto, 37, a pro-Palestinian Japanese terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in an airport massacre of 26 people in Israel in 1972. The Japanese government formally expressed regret over Israel's decision to release Okamoto and said it would attempt to bring him back to Japan to stand trial on murder charges. But Okamoto, like many of the others released this week, was flown directly from Geneva to Libya...
...negotiations with terrorists and no compromise with terrorism. But to Peres and his Labor Party colleagues, the prisoner swap was an essential step in ending the war in Lebanon and in living up to another long-standing policy: that Israel will do everything in its power to bring its POWs home. Insisted Defense Minister Rabin: "I don't feel any moral right to say to a captured soldier and his family that he should be left to rot in prison because the price is too high." In Lebanon, meantime, the instability precipitated by the war continued to grow. Sporadic fighting...
...Board members pointed out that only a third of all taxpayers are itemizers. But the most compelling reason for eliminating the deduction, the economists said, is that to do so would raise revenue that is certainly needed. The Treasury Department estimates that closing the state-and-local loophole will bring $38 billion into Government coffers...