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...begin talks on reducing each side's medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The U.S. team will be headed by Paul Nitze, a notable anti-Soviet hardliner who helped negotiate SALT I in 1972; the chief Soviet spokesman will be U.A. Kvitsinsky, a career diplomat with no particular expertise in arms-control talks. The negotiations were long expected: in return for persuading its NATO allies in 1979 to base 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil as a deterrent to the Soviet arsenal of mobile, multiwarhead SS-20 missiles, Washington pledged to start discussions with Moscow...
...waterway long disputed by the two neighboring countries that runs into the Persian Gulf. The Iraqis failed in this objective and everyone has suffered. Now the Shatt al Arab is useless to both countries; some 70 ships have been trapped in the waters by the fighting. As one Iranian diplomat sums up the situation: "There is no end to this crazy...
...headier days. Though the journals were crudely mimeographed publications with readerships of at most a few hundred each, they were formally banned by the Party Central Committee in February. "The conservatives in the military and in the security apparatus just couldn't stand the underground papers," says one diplomat who is based in Peking. "They were determined to eradicate the dissident movement once and for all and, in this, they have been pretty successful...
...West's whole Africa policy is on the verge of collapse because of Washington's attitude," said a senior West German official. "South Africa is conducting an invasion, an act of aggression, and we feel the U.S. should have the courage to condemn it," said a French diplomat. The trigger for the complaints: the U.S.'s lone vote in the U.N. Security Council last week against condemning South Africa's massive search-and-destroy mission in Angola. The assault was aimed at guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), who are fighting...
...military leaders. Found guilty, the five men were led past a howling mob to the Barclay Training Center, Monrovia's main military barracks, to be shot and bludgeoned to death in their cells later that night. Besides consolidating Doe's grip on the P.R.C., says a Western diplomat, "the killings were a warning to the former civilians in the Cabinet." One who took the warning seriously was Minister of Planning Togba-Nah Tipoteh, an American-trained economist. Two weeks ago, he sent in his resignation from the safety of the neighboring Ivory Coast, where he requested political asylum...