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Mostafa Hakimian is the pseudonym of an Iranian diplomat who held several senior positions in Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic government until he was ousted last year. Since then, Hakimian has traveled to Iran secretly half a dozen times. Last week, after his latest visit there, he shared his impressions with TIME...
...pictures of Walesa and Pope John Paul II to the now famous cross laid out in Victory Square to honor the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. But late last week authorities sealed off the square with a sturdy 6-ft.-high gray wooden fence. Still, as one veteran Western diplomat in Warsaw said of these latest acts of derring-do: "This is what Poles do best. But what does it gain them...
...senior Egyptian official: "Egypt will not participate in the Palestinian autonomy talks again until the complete withdrawal from Lebanon by Israel." Pushed by a rising tide of anti-American and anti-Israeli popular sentiment, Mubarak is determined to win real concessions in exchange for future cooperation. Says a Western diplomat in Cairo: "He is consumed with the need to keep ahead of his domestic critics and be viewed in Egyptian opinion as doing his utmost...
...explanation caused speculation among some Israelis that Begin and Sharon, fearing a defeat of the assault plan at the Cabinet level, had simply decided to proceed on their own. It also strengthened the view that Sharon enjoys too much power within the Begin government. Remarked a senior U.S. diplomat: "We are beginning to wonder if the political leadership in Jerusalem is being manipulated by the military." Said an Israeli Labor Party leader of the ambitious Sharon: "He has discovered completely the potentials of power, but he has not yet discovered its limitations...
...through with a plan to meet with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Still later in the week, when the Security Council debated a resolution to condemn Israel for defying previous U.N. demands on Lebanon, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum got into an angry argument with Soviet Ambassador Richard Ovinnikov. The Soviet diplomat told the council that his government favored "severe action" against Israel because it was "imperative that Beirut not join the list of cities such as Warsaw and Coventry that were destroyed by Hitler's Fascist troops." In a fury, Blum lashed out at Ovinnikov, terming his statement "obscene...