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On an equally significant level, the issue was not simply how much should be spent but how it should be spent. Some 34 weapons systems were initially killed, mainly by the House, but the conferees ended up restoring twelve of the major ones. Those that failed to regain funding were...
Peres' apparent concession to Hussein on the matter of an international peace conference took a highly convoluted form. In his U.N. speech, the Prime Minister said that "if deemed necessary," peace talks "may be initiated with the support of an international forum, as agreed upon by the negotiating states." He...
For a moment it seemed that the South African government had made a significant concession to world opinion. State President P.W. Botha had partly lifted the state of emergency that for the past three months has suspended civil liberties in some of the areas hit by protest. But it turned...
Many moderate opposition figures were trying to delay the elections until March in order to get better organized. Without such a concession from Marcos, they were threatening the possibility of an election boycott. The Marcos regime has hinted that it might be accommodating. Said Philippine Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile...
In a concession to U.S. negotiators, Viet Nam agreed in principle last month to joint MIA recovery operations, scheduled to begin this week at the site of a 1972 B-52 crash near Hanoi. There is good reason for Viet Nam's newly cooperative mood. Its annual per-capita income...