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...plan adopted at Fez, Morocco, in September, as well as his plans for closer relations with Jordan. He is well aware of the rising political power of the West Bank Palestinians, a constituency that is fundamentally at odds with the old-line radicals of the P.L.O. Says a Western diplomat in Damascus: "Arafat has always survived as a great mediator of the P.L.O.'s internal problems by finding the lowest common denominator. Now he is facing drastic choices, which one or another of his main groups may not be able to accept...
...sharp contrast, the case of British Diplomat Rhona Ritchie, 30, was merely sad. She was convicted of relaying the contents of confidential cables to her lover, an Egyptian diplomat, while she served at the British embassy in Israel. Attorney General Havers condemned her indiscretions as "more foolish than wicked," noting that the cables' contents would eventually have become known in any case. Already dismissed from the foreign service, Ritchie received a nine-month suspended sentence...
...production. According to drug-enforcement agents, an estimated 70% of the heroin (derived from opium) coming into the U.S. either originates in or passes through Pakistan. But overshadowing all else is Soviet activity in Afghanistan, which has driven 2.8 million Afghans to seek refuge in Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat in Islamabad: "Sometimes Zia's streak of religious fanaticism scares me. But he's the best we've got in a very dangerous situation...
...joined the Cabinet as director-general of Japan's Science and Technology Agency and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Later he broadened his experience by heading both the Defense Agency and the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Says a U.S. diplomat based in Tokyo: "Nakasone is one of the few Japanese who understands the seriousness of the problems we face in trade and defense. He is likely to confront them in a forthright manner...
Another contradiction in testimony involved Begin. Hanan Bar-On, deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry, had previously testified that on Friday evening, Sept. 17, he had called the Prime Minister's aide-de-camp, Lieut. Colonel Azriel Nevo, to pass along an American diplomat's report of trouble in the refugee camps. Last week Nevo testified that, "as far as I can remember," he had not even talked with Bar-On that Friday. Asked Kahan: "BarOn did not speak with you that evening?" Replied Nevo: "Did not speak. He says that he called me at my home...