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...contrast between Moscow's splash and Washington's plodding was reinforced by the rhetoric on both sides. While Shevardnadze warned that the Middle East "could be climbing the unpredictable ladder of nuclear escalation," Secretary of State James Baker asserted in a television interview, "I don't think it's ((an area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President...
...Soviet Union. Later, Shevardnadze warned that Moscow would not resume diplomatic ties with Israel until Jerusalem accepted an international forum. Arens said restoring relations was not a precondition, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that normalization still must precede a larger Soviet role in Middle East diplomacy...
More important, the Soviet initiative reinforced an emerging consensus in the Middle East that the conflict can no longer be ignored. "The postponements have ended," said a Cairo-based diplomat. "Now, either there will be progress toward peace or there will be a moment of truth that the gaps between the parties cannot be bridged...
Tabarez is not booming alone. Across the U.S., thousands of young, mostly male, boom-car aficionados are ripping out their backseats and dashboards to make room for stereo equipment as advanced as audiophiles have at home. Says Danny Moore of East Orange, N.J.: "Girls all want to go out with the guy with the loudest car." Besides rattling neighborhoods, boom-car fever has created a thriving market for manufacturers of exotic stereo equipment. They include not only such established Japanese companies as Sony and Nakamichi but also specialized U.S. firms like Mitek of Winslow...
Compared with the uproar in Iran and the Indian subcontinent, most of the Muslim reaction in the Middle East was mild. Though a conference of theologians meeting in Mecca denounced Rushdie as a "heretic and renegade" and reportedly demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued that the case had been blown out of proportion. Hassan Saab, an adviser to the Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Lebanon, called Rushdie "an insignificant writer who has attacked a great prophet." He asked, "What harm has befallen the Prophet?" In Egypt the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheik...