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...talks resumed in Argentina on Friday, Costa Mendez expected Haig to "bend his arm-or maybe break it," according to one senior Argentine diplomat. Haig never lost his temper, but the five hours with Costa Mendez were the toughest of the entire shuttle. "I want to know the limit, limit, limit of the Argentine position," Haig insisted. Costa Mendez did not budge. Though he offered the British sovereignty over South Georgia, he stressed that "we can never go back to April 1 [the day before the invasion]." On Saturday Haig postponed his departure in order to meet again with...
...prevent some of the more radical Palestinian factions from launching their own attack across the Lebanese-Israeli border. In an effort to head off an Israeli strike and hold the Israelis to their promise of withdrawing from the Sinai by the scheduled date, the U.S. sent its second-ranking diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, to Jerusalem for talks with Prime Minister Begin. Stoessel then continued to Cairo to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...tier of the government last year. Most costly of all has been the war with Iraq, which bled off $7 billion, or an estimated 17% of the government's annual budget. But the war also provided a strong rallying point for the nation. Says a Middle Eastern diplomat in Tehran: "The Iraqis gave [Iran's leaders] a chance to unite the people. The war gave the revolution the perfect means to hide some serious social and economic problems...
Brezhnev's failing health may be having a paralyzing effect on the workings of the Soviet government. "The decision-making mechanism is blocked," observes a Western diplomat in Moscow. "Under these circumstances, who in the Kremlin today could make a decision to cut back on the deployment of nuclear missiles or make a serious offer at the Geneva arms talks with...
...office, as Joseph Stalin did in 1953, or be ousted, as Nikita Khrushchev was in 1964. One possible setting for a resignation: the plenary meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee at the end of April or the beginning of May. Says one Western European diplomat in Moscow: "If they do it like this, I would expect them to pull out all the stops and make it a grand, very respectable, occasion...