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...less than the 27% they claim as their traditional electoral base. Ever since the Communists shattered Mitterrand's vaunted "Union of the Left" by leaving the government last summer, the Socialists have had "to face some hard questions about their own identity," in the words of one diplomat in Paris...
Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "This is a big moment for Gorbachev. He will be watched by the foreign audience, but he will also be watched very closely by the Soviet leadership. He can help himself or hurt himself...
...Development. The Ethiopian charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
...Washington, U.S. officials debated whether it was feasible or even wise to plan reprisals against Shi'ite militants in Lebanon. "Whom would we hit and where?" asked a State Department official. Other groups, claiming to be associated with the Hizballah, are holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their fate...
...particularly important for Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who has promised his countrymen a referendum on Spain's continued membership in NATO by February 1986. Gonzalez has hinted that without E.C. membership he may not get the popular support he needs for NATO. Says a senior Spanish diplomat: "You cannot ask us to participate in the defense of the values of the West and not grant us the benefits." In private, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has put it more bluntly: "Why should the Spanish send their soldiers to help defend us when...