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...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION announced late last week that it will case restrictions on trade with South Africa, significantly loosening the controls imposed by former President Jimmy Carter four years ago. At about the same time, the federal government's most recent envoy to the apartheid-ruled nation cautioned U.S. officials to avoid making statements that could anger the ruling Botha regime. Those twin developments make it all the more imperative that other U.S. institutions from Congress on down to corporations and universities act vigorously to reprove South Africa for its repressive and discriminatory system...
...INSULT THE AMBASSADOR" is the latest weapon in President Reagan's foreign policy arsenal. When Nicaragua's new envoy arrived in Washington last week, he was greeted not with the usual diplomatic niceties but with a note scolding his government for "inviting alien influences and philosophies into the hemisphere. "Tragically, the hostile attitude adopted by Reagan and his advisors toward the Nicaraguan Sandinistas could easily push a country open to friendly relations with the United States into the Soviet camp...
...Palestinian autonomy agreement. Increasingly uneasy about this, the Reagan Administration has at last decided to appoint a special Middle East negotiator, a post that was held by Ambassador Sol Linowitz during the Carter Administration but has remained vacant for the past year. Haig was reluctant to appoint a special envoy in part because he feared that if the talks failed, the Administration risked losing credibility in the Arab world. Now that Haig seems to have changed his mind, the almost certain choice for the job is General Brent Scowcroft, 56, a former adviser to the National Security Council...
...hand, they welcome the step, feeling that only the U.S. can persuade the Israelis to compromise. "It is important for the U.S. to remain active all the time, not just seasonally," says Osama el Baz, a key Mubarak adviser. On the other hand, the Egyptians warned that the U.S. envoy should not try to pressure them into anything...
...meantime, the Pope sent a special envoy, Archbishop Luigi Poggi, to Poland to meet with the military government, which in turn was holding talks with a committee of leading Catholic laymen. Poggi delivered a letter from the Pope to Jaruzelski and had a long discussion with him. The Pope also received a personal report on the Polish situation from Polish Bishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, who had twice visited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa in detention. What was most interesting about these diplomatic contacts between the Warsaw government and the Vatican was the implication that Poland's present rulers would welcome the support...