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...announcement by the Arab League of a six-point proposal for a settlement gave new impetus to a P.L.O. departure. For the first time, the Arab world acknowledged its "collective responsibility," as one U.S. diplomat in Washington put it, to ensure the evacuation of the Palestinians from Beirut. The key passage in the document, which was signed by Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, stated: "The Palestine Liberation Organization declares its decision to transfer its armed forces from Beirut and define guarantees for this move, along with guarantees to be worked out between the P.L.O...
...trip to Algiers two weeks ago, Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi spelled out those terms and stressed Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve...
Moreover, unlike European governments, the U.S. has been unwilling to grant its companies favorable credit arrangements on their Indian projects. Complains one American diplomat: "European commercial attaches go around like salesmen from company to company booking orders. We just can't do that." U.S. investment in India will undoubtedly be one of the items on Gandhi's agenda during a visit this week to Washington...
...restrictions on trade credits for an already debt-ridden Eastern Bloc, which will still salvage something from his original plan of economic warfare. If that happened, it would indicate that Reagan has learned, after two years of foreign policy cramming, to go beyond the briefing books and become a diplomat. If however, Reagan sticks to his guns, it will demonstrate that the President's education still has a couple of semesters...
...previously enjoyed an unusually successful career in the Catholic Church. Born in Cicero, Ill., he attended a Chicago seminary and was a parish priest before going to Rome in 1950 to study canon law. Once there, he started working his way up the Vatican hierarchy by serving as a diplomat. His administrative skill, as well as his commanding height (6 ft. 3 in.) helped him land a job as bodyguard and advance man for Pope Paul...