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...Honduras that could involve up to 5,000 troops rotating in and out over a six-month period. "There is a desire to provide a boost to the morale of the Hondurans and the Salvadorans and to show that U.S. power is not rhetoric," said a senior U.S. diplomat. But the ostentatious making of waves, which seemed an attention grabber rather than a justified military maneuver, stirred resentment at home and abroad. Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan José Amado, whose country has been supportive of U.S. peace efforts, said such actions will "cause concern and tension" in Latin America. Congressman...
...complete pullout. To assuage Gemayel further, the Administration also agreed to transform $150 million in loans to the Lebanese into outright grants. But by the time Reagan met with Gemayel for two hours last Friday, it was clear that the U.S. had no new strategies. Said a senior American diplomat: "Frankly, the best we can do for Lebanon is work with them to restore a sense of momentum on complete withdrawal...
...documents seen by TIME, Israel handled most of its sales through Faroukh Azzizi, an Iranian arms merchant who lives in Athens. The papers show that Azzizi purchased U.S.-made Tow missiles from Israel in November 1982. The shipment went to Amsterdam before reaching Tehran. Says a senior Western diplomat in Brussels: "Israeli and American claims that Israel made only a single, isolated sale are pretty disingenuous." The Israeli government firmly denies any wrong doing. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman Nachman Shai last week: "We have not violated any agreement between the U.S. and us that forbids selling American-made weapons...
...fact that the conference operated by consensus. The objections of any one country were often enough to stall negotiations. Last year the Madrid conference held no sessions between February and November because of Western concern over the imposition of martial law in Poland. As a senior U.S. diplomat put it, "It's the only kind of international court we have in which to drag the Soviets into the docket on human rights...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...