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...same time he fears that the U.S. is not trying hard enough to open a dialogue with the Soviets and thus defuse East-West tensions. "Schmidt wants to be assured that our policy toward the Soviet Union is more than one of simple hostility," said a senior U.S. diplomat...
...first glimmer that Habib's talkathon might be paying off came early in the week, when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin made the surprising announcement that his Cabinet had unanimously voted "to put no time limit whatsoever" on Habib's efforts to solve the problem through diplomatic channels. At the outset of the crisis, Begin had darkly hinted that Secretary of State Alexander Haig's envoy had only a week to work his magic, or Israel would attack the missiles. Two days after the Cabinet meeting, in what seemed to be a reassuring signal to Syria...
Fear of assassination may cut down foreign travel by politicians. Fifty African heads of state are due in Nairobi next month for a summit meeting, but according to one diplomat, "Kenya will be lucky if it gets even a third of the total." Australia, which has already committed $14 million for massive security at October's Commonwealth Conference in Melbourne, ordered a fresh review of plans after John Paul's shooting...
Franco-Soviet Relations. Mitterrand is likely to take a harder line toward the Soviet Union than Giscard-despite his relationship with Moscow's most loyal European Communist Party. The President-elect strongly denounced the Afghanistan invasion and, as one senior British diplomat observed, "has no illusions about Soviet motivations and intentions." Pravda, which praised Giscard's commitment to detente and was openly rooting for him in the election, lamented last week that the Socialist leader would probably adopt the " 'tough positions' of the Western side...
...since 1973. A third possibility for Premier is Banker Jacques Delors, 55, but he has been mentioned as a more likely candidate for an economics ministry. A key member of the Mitterrand team and a candidate for the Quai D'Orsay, France's Foreign Ministry, is veteran Diplomat Claude Cheysson. As a commissioner of the European Community, Cheysson, 61, led the development of its generous trade policy toward the Third World...