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...Begin said that U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar would not be welcome to visit Jerusalem if he went through with a plan to meet with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Still later in the week, when the Security Council debated a resolution to condemn Israel for defying previous U.N. demands on Lebanon, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum got into an angry argument with Soviet Ambassador Richard Ovinnikov. The Soviet diplomat told the council that his government favored "severe action" against Israel because it was "imperative that Beirut not join the list of cities such as Warsaw...
...would enforce the amendment. To legal experts it is conceivable that the whole federal budget, item by item, might end up for review by the Supreme Court. Says Yale Law Professor Burke Marshall: "This would be the breeding ground for an enormous amount of litigation." Conservatives who condemn the activism of American judges should wonder whether they really want to watch the courts of the land running the appropriations process...
...Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve the Iranian conditions...
...I.R.A. violence was condemned in Ireland and Britain alike. Ireland's Prime Minister Charles Haughey, who has had chilly relations with Thatcher ever since he declared Irish neutrality in the Falklands war, did not hesitate to condemn "those responsible for these inhuman crimes [that] do irreparable damage to the good name of Ireland and to the cause of Irish unity." Traveling in the U.S. to explain Britain's plan for returning local power to Northern Ireland, which is now governed directly from London, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland James Prior urged Irish Americans to stop supporting...
...come in the way of friendship with all the others. On the subject of Afghanistan, we have made our stand very clear. We are opposed to a foreign presence, whether in the shape of troops or any other type of interference, anywhere. Everybody rushed in at once to condemn the Soviet Union. We said we disapproved, but we did not join in the condemnation because we felt that it would not improve the situation. We have said from the beginning that there has to be a political solution in Afghanistan, a negotiated settlement...