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...face of these claims, Israeli officials still adamantly asserted that Iraq had planned to build bombs. The main evidence: Baghdad's insistence on being supplied with weapons-grade uranium and the existence of the Italian hot-cell lab capable of extracting plutonium. But Umberto Colombo, chairman of the Italian Nuclear Energy Commission, said last week that producing plutonium in tangible amounts would require extra equipment and technology. Said he: "It is absolutely impossible for these facilities we are supplying to be used to make plutonium for bombs...
...Weiner, a former foreign service officer, offers its own custom-tailored reports. When one American multinational asked Weiner to determine whether it was safe to set up an assembly plant in Sri Lanka, he spent months interviewing government officials and members of the opposition party in the capital of Colombo, then advised going ahead, though he cautioned that both the regime in power and the opposition should first make it clear that they would actually welcome the project...
Reagan, meanwhile, receives the Italian Foreign Minister, Emilio Colombo. It is a courtesy call; Colombo has already talked business with Richard Allen and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. As Reagan and Colombo make small talk, there is a "photo opportunity": a herd of photographers and TV crews bursts into the room, cameras blazing, and leaves a few moments later...
...first time in the day, Reagan seems ill at ease. Speaking with Colombo requires using interpreters, something Reagan has rarely done. Colombo delivers an ornate statement about the robust history of Italian-American relations. Reagan pauses, uncertain whether to address Colombo or one of the two translators, and starts his reply: "Well, I appreciate that very much. The feeling is mutual...
...Harry") Jayawardene, 63, brother of Sri Lanka President Junius Richard Jayawardene, is chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and protection of human rights. In 1979 he was chairman of a UNESCO conference on human rights in Bangkok. Educated at the Royal College in Colombo and Ceylon Law College, he has been an attorney since 1941, and became one of the youngest men named to the prestigious position of Queen's Counsel. Jayawardene is a devout Buddhist and an ardent supporter of wildlife conservation...