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...order to pursue her diplomatic career, nextyear she will go to Georgetown University for afour-year law and foreign service program. "I hopethat will better qualify me as a diplomat on theinternational scene," she says. Khalil says shereceived one of her first lessons in how delicateMiddle-Eastern issues can be after writing acontroversial Government honors thesis, entitled"The Absence of Arab Retaliation During the 1982Israeli Invasion of Lebanon...
Days after Janos Kadar's replacement as Communist Party leader by Prime Minister Karoly Grosz, the mood in Budapest was still euphoric. "We won," exulted one party member last week. "It went beyond our expectations," said a high-ranking government figure. Agreed a Western diplomat: "The change is unprecedented in the Soviet bloc...
...bloc's chief reformer, Kadar had run Hungary since Moscow installed him in power in 1956. Now he has the largely ceremonial post of party president. Few Hungarians seemed to care; all eyes were on his successor. "This is a talented and politically skilled crowd," said a senior Western diplomat in Budapest of the country's new power elite. "What they might do now is wide open...
...Some diplomats suggested that the Syrians' expanded security role in Beirut could improve prospects for the release of foreign hostages, including nine Americans, believed held by pro-Iranian militants in the Shi'ite neighborhoods. In his desire to regain respectability following Western charges of Syrian involvement in international terrorism, Assad would like to reap credit for seeing the hostages freed. A Western diplomat in Damascus described the security plan for the suburbs as "a move in the right direction...
Even as the first contingents of Soviet soldiers moved toward the border last week, the rebels began marshaling their forces. "The mujahedin are just gobbling up territory in the eastern provinces near Pakistan," said a Western diplomat in Islamabad. By week's end the rebels had overrun dozens of military posts abandoned by the hapless Afghan army and had besieged several important provincial towns. If the insurgents can take Jalalabad, a major town along the main supply route between Kabul and Pakistan, the capital itself may eventually fall...