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...idea has recently gained momentum. But the U.S. has been wary. Administration officials fear that Moscow, which continues to back the P.L.O., would use such a conference to expand its influence in the region and ultimately control the meeting to favor Arab aspirations. The Soviets sent an eight-member consular team to Israel last week. The mission marks the first time an official Soviet delegation has visited Jerusalem since Moscow severed relations with Israel over the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The Soviets may soon be the only major power to have contact with all of the parties, including Israel, moderate...
...addition to the new credit package, which will finance four hydroelectric, coal, steel and oil-exploration projects, the two countries signed agreements expanding consular facilities and cultural programs, including a Festival of India for the Soviet Union similar to the one that traveled to the U.S. last year. Gandhi turned down a Soviet offer to build two nuclear power plants. India already has the capability to build them and wants to avoid dependency on Soviet nuclear-fuel supplies. Indian officials took a cautious line on a Soviet offer to provide military equipment to counter any Airborne Warning and Control System...
...recent months Moscow and Peking have agreed to resume consular relations and have stepped up cross-border trade, marking the most significant movement in Sino-Soviet relations since Gorbachev's rise to power 20 months ago. Moreover, there are tentative signs of improvement on another source of dispute, Soviet support for the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. Two weeks ago, when a senior Soviet-bloc diplomat was asked in Peking if Moscow might reduce aid to Viet Nam, he responded, "There is always the possibility of adjusting programs that might not work." Still, Peking is wary. Says a Chinese journalist...
Hasenfus was allowed only one minute with his wife Sally last week, and eleven minutes with a consular officer from the U.S. embassy in Managua. When she returned home to Marinette, Wis., Sally Hasenfus said her husband looked "very, very stiff." Said she: "I told him, 'We're not going to give up, and we're going to get you out of here.' " In Atlanta former Attorney General Griffin Bell announced that he would fly to Managua to defend Hasenfus...
Acting State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the embassy delivered a diplomatic note Tuesday to Nicaraguan officials requesting consular access to Hasenfus, the lone survivor of the crash Sunday of a cargo plane in southern Nicaragua...