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...result of the increasingly hostile reaction to the refugee flow, the UNHCR has had to scramble for funds, personnel and cooperation from host countries. Its $100 million 1978 budget doubled in 1979, then doubled again in 1980 in response to the refugee waves rippling out from Indochina, Afghanistan and Ethiopia...
...wrecking detente. In answer, Haig cited President Reagan's fervent belief that Moscow is to blame for any chilly relations and attacked the Soviets for continuing to press their own formidable military augmentation. He also ticked off a familiar list of examples of Soviet expansionism: Angola, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Yemen, Cambodia and Central America...
...particulars about Soviet misbehavior. High on the list are the continuing arms buildup that threatens to upset the global military balance; Soviet support for terrorism through Libya, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Organization; the continued occupation of Afghanistan; and Soviet intervention in such Third World nations as Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Cambodia...
...compromises go, Tsongas's is not so bad. He is a liberal in the good sense of the word, the sense that comes from having lived in Ethiopia and in Lowell. Much of what he says is astute, and most of what he says is correct in a public policy sort of way. But in an age like ours, is compromise enough? Must politics forever be the art of the possible...
...eight U.S. F-14s had attacked its planes and that one F-14 had been shot down, and at first did not acknowledge the loss of any Libyan aircraft. Colonel Gaddafi, in Aden to sign a political and economic cooperation agreement with the radical regimes of South Yemen and Ethiopia, called for Arab mobilization against the U.S. But his government said that it would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees and their families. Nor was there any indication by week's end that Libya, which ranks...