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...prompted the image-conscious Soviets last week to release a ten-minute color videotape showing the physicist, apparently in good health, and his wife Yelena Bonner. Said a French observer: "If you don't think the accords matter to the Russians, then just watch television." A senior Western diplomat in Moscow concurred: "These agreements give us the basis to go in and discuss human rights issues with the Soviets. [They] no longer challenge our right to raise the issue. In Eastern Europe, it has been used as a handle for loosening up conditions in some areas, such as family reunification...
DIED. Eugene Carson Blake, 78, eminent American liberal churchman who as chief executive of a Presbyterian denomination (1951-66), president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing...
...Zulfikar, which was dedicated to overthrowing the Zia regime. It was based in Afghanistan and rumored to have ties to Libya and Syria. Last year the two brothers were convicted in absentia for involvement in the 1981 hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines jet, during which a Pakistani diplomat was killed. Over the past 18 months, Shahnawaz was said to have given up his underground activities and become a partner in a fashionable Geneva restaurant. But French police said they found two revolvers and several forged passports in his apartment, along with the first draft of a book on Pakistan...
...issue of diplomatic recognition did not come up in a brief, unscheduled meeting between Peres and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze later in the week. Instead, Shevardnadze quizzed Peres about the fate of specific Soviet Jews who had emigrated to Israel from the Soviet diplomat's native republic of Georgia...
...likely deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in Belgium and the Netherlands, the document also suggested that the U.S. and the Soviet Union refrain from stationing nuclear weapons in nations that do not already have them and put a lid on existing nuclear arsenals. Said a senior Western diplomat in Sofia: "There's nothing much here that's different from what the Soviets are already proposing...