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...security from inside its own borders, not from inside someone else's." The dilemma of the moderate Shi'ites is stark: Israel will not trust them, and radicals in their ranks will reject any sort of cooperative effort with Israel when their fragile is threatened. After last week's clash with the French U.N. troops, both sides issued statements calling the fighting a "regrettable incident." Nonetheless, at the funeral of the dead Amal militiamen, hundreds of young Shi'ites chanted an ominous refrain: "Death to the French...
...Just as South Africa's black Anglican Archbishop-elect, Desmond Tutu, had told the West to "go to hell" the week before, now it was South Africa's white President, P.W. Botha, saying virtually the same thing. The defiant stands on both sides of the embattled nation's apartheid clash focused on the same subject: sanctions. While Tutu had reacted angrily to Ronald Reagan's attack on the whole notion of employing punitive measures against the Pretoria government, Botha was striking out at the mounting international determination to step up pressure against South Africa...
...This clash over what must come first may harden. The United Democratic Front, the largest apartheid coalition, which claims more than 600 organizations with 2 million members, now calls for nothing less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
Despite a long-standing political rivalry between Mitterrand and Chirac, cohabitation has been more amiable than many French pundits had predicted. With last week's clash, however, both leaders signaled that there are limits to their reservoirs of amiability. "Cohabitation is a tandem bicycle," said Assembly Deputy Philippe Mestre in a clash of metaphors, "on which the two cyclists pedal in opposite directions...
...from New York, a city not noted for its gentle traffic manners, tells of the time he lost a muffler on Storrow Drive to a Bostonian aggressively merging onto that thoroughfare. The Bostonian, despite the fact that he shed his own bumper in the clash, never glanced to either side and sped on when the New Yorker pulled over to exchange insurance information...