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...Shultz and Mr. Weinberger can speak for themselves." Speculation around Washington last week that Shultz's days are numbered was undercut by the President when the White House announced that the Secretary of State would visit Moscow next month for renewed discussions with the Soviets. A highly regarded diplomat whose departure would be unsettling to U.S. allies, Shultz has enraged Reagan loyalists by his criticisms of the Iran initiative. Nevertheless, he flatly stated last week, "I have no plans to leave. So wipe that off your slate...
...help defuse the situation by compromising with the opposition on a formula for the transition to democracy. Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Seoul last week during a ten-day Far East swing, reportedly received assurances that Chun would seek such a compromise. Said a senior U.S. diplomat: "We believe this is a historic opportunity, and both Chun and the opposition have got to take it." A breakthrough will be difficult to achieve, however, because the country has little tradition of political accommodation...
...decision to found a discussion group stems from a protest last spring when members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) attempted to blockade two of three doors to an auditorium where a South African diplomat was speaking. The Harvard Police broke through the blockade and escorted the diplomat from the room...
...courtly Soviet diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief...
...Lebanese Armed Revolutionary ^ Factions (known as F.A.R.L.), a group that since 1981 had made eight attacks on Americans or Israelis in Europe. The agencies further contended that he was a mastermind of international terror who had arranged the killings of Assistant U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris in 1982 and tried to murder U.S. Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg...