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Actually, depending on which way all the Middle East dominoes eventually fall, the ultimate result of Sadat's decision might be peace. United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was in Moscow last week to confer with Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring about reactivating Jarring's long-stalled U.N. peace negotiations next month. Now that Sadat has regained popular support at home and is finally convinced that the Soviets will not lead or follow him into war, he may very well decide to try again for a settlement. The possibilities for accommodation will be clearer this week after Egypt...
Foreign Secretary William Whitelaw flew from London to Belfast yesterday to confer with security advisers on the crisis, and then flew back to make a statement to Parliament...
...world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting the escalation: many flew to Washington to confer with Administration officials and a few even risked arrest a antiwar actions...
...world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting the escalation: many flew to Washington to confer with Administration officials and a few even risked arrest at antiwar actions...
...reformers, the new norms preserve the intermediary role of the papal representative in each country, who investigates nominees and can also make nominations of his own. The once formidable power of that representative, however, is somewhat diluted. He must now consult with churchmen of the country, and may confer with laymen as well. Throughout all of the procedures, the rules re-emphasize the requirement of "papal secrecy," which forbids the revelation of nominees' names to anyone not involved in the process. The secrecy, says the Vatican, "is demanded by the very nature of the matter and by the respect...