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...Five days later the Soviets responded in kind, ordering U.S. embassy employee Lieut. Colonel Daniel Van Gundy to leave Moscow. The charge: attempting to enter a closed area and take pictures of military facilities. As denials flew on both sides and the threat of further expulsions loomed, a Western envoy in Moscow predicted: "Relations aren't permanently hurt by this. It's just a shoving match...
...Christmas Eve the hostages hear on the radio that Church of England envoy Terry Waite has failed to negotiate their freedom, and has returned to London. Anderson is crushed. Father Jenco tries to sing carols but is too depressed. Jacobsen draws a crude Christmas tree on a piece of cardboard and sticks it on the wall...
...time for translation. In a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, Bush refrained from discussing in detail such key topics as trade and sharing the defense burden. In China, where Bush stopped Saturday and Sunday, his visit mostly renewed friendships dating back to his residence there as U.S. envoy in the mid-1970s. The entire basis of the relationship between the U.S. and China, which was founded on mutual distrust of the Soviet Union, is changing as Gorbachev prepares to visit Beijing in May for a summit with Deng Xiaoping. Yet there was no indication that Bush spelled...
...center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however, see Quayle as an envoy to, rather than from, the right, "another set of eyes and ears" for the President. Says one: "If Dan Quayle can act as an address for the right wing of the party and make them feel included, that's all for the best. At the very least, maybe they...
...decision [to move to Geneva] is already taken by Arab countries and the PLO that the U.N. debate on Palestine and the Middle East should be done in a more hospitable country which abides by its obligations," the PLO envoy told reporters...