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Islamic Jihad, the extremist group that held Jacobsen, still holds two Americans, journalist Terry A. Anderson and educator Thomas Sutherland. It said last year it killed U.S. diplomat William Buckley, 57, but no body was found. Lebanese Shiite and Western intelligence sources have said Buckley may have died earlier...
LONDON--A newspaper reported yesterday that an undercover Syrian agent worked as a clerk for 20 years in the British Embassy in Damascus and tricked a diplomat there into signing a visa for Nezar Hindawi...
...they were putting pressure on the U.S. to make or break the deal. Either way Gorbachev could not lose. Some experts even say Gorbachev was counting on the talks collapsing over Reagan's insistence on Star Wars. "They banked on Reagan's theological commitment to SDI," says one Western diplomat in Moscow. "Now they are behaving as if to say to the Americans...
...when U.S. and Soviet positions overlapped on nearly all non-SDI issues, did it become clear just how adamant the Soviets were on linking the entire package to the scuttling of Star Wars. "Before Reykjavik, the Soviets were in a position in which SDI had become delinked," said one diplomat. "Now it is relinked, and in such a way as to make it appear that the Americans okayed...
...postsummit press conference, Gorbachev's performance did not seem like a spontaneous reaction to a failed summit. "He had probably cleared that speech with the Politburo before he left," said one diplomat. Some observers, however, think the Soviet performance was more impulsive than premeditated. "What happened to the Soviets was contrary to their expectations," says Dimitri Simes, a Sovietologist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Both sides were upping the ante beyond what was realistic for the two delegations. Gorbachev intended to trap the President, but then he became involved himself in the dialogue and allowed the attraction...