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...Reagan not at all. Says Nancy: "You will never get anywhere with him if you say, 'This will help you [politically].' You might as well forget it." Reagan insists that he has instructed his advisers never to consider the vote-getting potential of a decision, and his aides unanimously confirm it. That testimony sounds too self-serving to be swallowed whole, and there have been actions that contradict it, notably Reagan's lifting of the embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets. But it comes from too many sources to be discounted. At the very least, that stand...
...them. In August, he grandly convoked the 19th annual summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. For Gaddafi it was to be a major event: according to a decision made at the 1981 summit in Nairobi, the Tripoli gathering would confirm his installation as O.A.U. chairman for one year. But Gaddafi alienated a number of moderate African states by helping to engineer the recognition of the Polisario guerrilla movement, which opposes Morocco's 1976 annexation of the Western Sahara, as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. As a result, only 21 heads...
Details of the incident are sketchy. Abdul Wadood Wafamal, first secretary in the Afghan embassy in New Delhi, would confirm only that a "gas tanker" had exploded in the tunnel. Without offering additional information on the accident, he argued against reports of enormous casualties. "We would have had to call for help internationally if such a disaster had occurred," said Wafamal. But Western diplomatic and military sources, citing reports from Kabul, and Afghan refugee leaders in New Delhi claim that a major tragedy did occur. One eyewitness, a refugee who gave his name only as Abdul, was riding...
Kohl vowed to "lead the German-American relationship out of the twilight zone and confirm and stabilize the friendship." Last week, on the eve of his first official visit to Washington, Kohl again pledged to "deepen the relationship through stronger consultation...
Fassi originally contained his office about the visit while "We were busy in our City Hall trying to figure out our heating oil budget. "Vellcci states in the letter. He adds that the Sheik "called hour office time again to confirm, reconfirm and then reconfirm his visit...