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...approval of a $168 billion Social Security compromise package. With the bipartisan blessings of President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the National Commission on Social Security Reform hammered together the agreement hours short of its Jan. 15 deadline. The commission's success, after months of deadlock, may have saved the entire Social Security issue from becoming fatally ensnared in a ferocious wrangle on Capitol Hill. Even so, predicts Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York, one of the so-called Gang of Five that helped produce the 15-member commission's compromise agreement: "The package...
...Habib. On leaving Washington earlier in the week, Habib had declared: "There is an urgent need to put the problems of Lebanon behind us so that we can move on to the larger issues of peace in the region." Whether the Reagan Administration's rising impatience over the deadlock contributed to last week's agreement was not clear, but the return of Habib undoubtedly increased the pressure on both the Israelis and the Lebanese. Even as the agenda agreement was being announced, Habib was reported to have told the two sides that they should now work toward...
Throughout the 2½-week deadlock, Lebanese delegates had maintained that the talks should be aimed at securing a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, thus leading to a withdrawal of Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization troops as well. The Israelis were determined that the talks deal with "normalization" of relations between the two countries, and that they should also discuss arrangements for maintaining security in southern Lebanon, opposite the Israeli border. The government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel feared that any steps toward diplomatic recognition of Israel would upset Muslim-Christian relations within Lebanon and, worse, anger neighboring Arab...
...signs of a softening in West European support for the U.S. position could be both divisive and dangerous, but many leaders in the alliance are also concerned about the political cost of ignoring any proposal that could break the deadlock in the arms talks. In Copenhagen, Denmark's parliament has voted to freeze a $6 million contribution to NATO earmarked for the construction of new missile sites, causing considerable embarrassment for Conservative Prime Minister Poul Schlüter. During an acrimonious debate over nuclear policy in Britain's House of Commons, leaders of the Labor opposition charged Prime...
...Palestinians did not budge on their basic goals, which include the creation of an independent Palestine. But to break the negotiating deadlock between the U.S., Israel and the P.L.O., the agreement called for the Palestinians to be represented by a delegation that includes Jordanians and non-P.L.O. Palestinians authorized by the P.L.O. to represent its interests...