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...deploying nuclear weapons in Europe, the U.S.S.R. saw it as a clear sign that the President had no intention of seriously negotiating an arms-control treaty. Now, when Reagan is forced by the upcoming election to show that he is not a warmonger, the Soviets immediately send their top diplomat, Gromyko...
...month to pressure Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid into canceling the P.L.O. get-together. Chadli agreed. Hussein was so dismayed by the Syrian President's heavyhanded interference that he decided to make the burgeoning Jordanian relationship with Egypt official. "Jordan was fed up with it all," said a Western diplomat. "It just decided that enough was enough...
Washington reacted by accusing the Sandinistas of attempting a devious propaganda ploy. The draft treaty is "full of loopholes," declared a senior U.S. diplomat. Other officials claimed that the Sandinistas were using an incomplete document-which is, for example, unfinished on the subject of the verification of arms inventories-to convince increasingly skeptical friends and neighbors of their democratic and peaceful intentions. The U.S. reaction produced exasperation in Managua. Said a senior official of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry: "It sometimes seems as if, short of committing collective suicide, there is nothing Nicaragua can do to please the United States...
...register for the election. But the Sandinistas' sudden public relations campaign of sweet reason seemed to some former admirers to lack conviction. At a two-day meeting of representatives from Central America, Contadora and the European Community in Costa Rica at week's end, one European diplomat remarked: "It's growing a bit more difficult for us to be enthusiastic about the Nicaraguan revolution." -By Hunter R. Clark...
DIED. Ellsworth Bunker, 90, patrician, unflappable diplomat under seven Presidents, who epitomized the old-school foreign service officer during his many key assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet...