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...Nobody has said we are going to lift the embargo for free. It would require an important concrete step to be taken by the Chinese." ANNALISA GIANNELLA, representative for European Union chief diplomat Javier Solana, stating that the E.U. will not lift its embargo on arms sales to China unless Beijing improves its record on human rights...
...Vatican, Ruini was no doubt heading to lunch. By the route he was taking, I guessed his destination might be the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, just down the hill, perhaps to meet with some of the 11 voting American cardinals. But a senior U.S. diplomat confirmed for me that there was no lunch served today. Still, just a bit further down the hill is the residence of the Spanish Ambassador - a perfect spot for Ruini to gather the more than two-dozen or so Spanish-speaking electors. I will never know. But in my next...
...ways to bring about talks between Viet Nam and the Kampuchean insurgents. A plan calling for negotiations with a Vietnamese delegation that might include representatives of the Heng Samrin regime won the backing of resistance fighters, ASEAN nations and the U.S. But Viet Nam rejected the idea. One Vietnamese diplomat in Malaysia told TIME, "The proposal is a backward step. It does not help peace talks...
...charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev's insistence on greater efficiency in the military. Under Gorbachev, declared one West European diplomat in Moscow, "there will be no overspending...
...senior American diplomat last week explained South African behavior by suggesting that Pretoria has developed "tremendous unease" over the past year amid the steady rise in violence. "There is an anxiety, an uncertainty that has not existed before. They have tried jailing black leaders, but this is not a led movement. There is an unintended partnership between the A.N.C. trying to take credit for the disturbances, and the South African government trying to blame them on the A.N.C. because the government cannot admit to itself that no one person or organization is responsible...