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...venue for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to talk with Shultz-and possibly with Reagan. In the aftermath of the KAL 007 crisis, Gromyko was refused entry last year to international airports in New York and New Jersey, and he decided to cancel his annual U.N. appearance. The veteran diplomat has been included on this session's roster of speakers, but there is no official word from Moscow about his plans...
...their seriousness and flexibility in the closed-door conversations. In particular, the U.S. is challenging the Sandinistas to come to terms before the U.S. presidential election. In Washington, State Department officials were exuding confidence that the situation was stacked heavily in the Administration's favor. Says a U.S. diplomat: "The question boils down to whether these guys know a good deal when they see one, and are capable of taking...
...exact nature of the organization remains murky; indeed, many experts doubt that it really exists as a cohesive entity. "It's very mysterious," said a Western diplomat in the gulf last week. "It's not really one group at all, but an umbrella name for the work done by any number of smaller groups." Taken together, the units appear to work with the aid and support of Iran, but not as a single body...
More important, many Western experts doubt whether a terrorist organization could on its own carry out a task as logistically difficult as planting mines along the length of the Red Sea. Says a diplomat in the gulf: "Mine laying is beyond the capabilities of the usual terrorist group. A government has to be involved, but no government is going to take responsibility for this sort of terrorism." Speculation quickly centered on two radical Islamic nations with reasons of their own to disrupt Western shipping and embarrass Egypt: Iran and Libya...
Meanwhile, a former Nicaraguan diplomat who defected last fall told a Senate subcommittee on drug abuse that several Sandinista leaders were directly involved in smuggling cocaine into the U.S. In Miami, a U.S. Attorney presented a federal court with photographs purporting to show Nicaraguan soldiers and a government aide loading cocaine onto a plane bound for Miami. The Sandinistas have denied the charges, which first surfaced in July...