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Assad managed to extract an important clarification from each side. No happier than France or Switzerland to act as a warden over U.S. prisoners, he - persuaded Berri to stop demanding that the hostages remain in Syria until all of Israel's detainees were released. Conversely, from Washington he won an assurance that those detainees would be granted their freedom. Ironically, in the same Friday speech that evidently angered Berri, Reagan carefully reaffirmed that fact. "Israel had always intended to release them and had made that very clear," said the President...
...research facilities. At least eleven nations possess facilities for the reprocessing of nuclear fuels, all yielding varying amounts of plutonium. Large enrichment facilities to turn uranium into nuclear fuel, or bomb-grade material, exist in the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, France and China. Commercial reprocessing plants to extract plutonium from used reactor fuel are located or planned in France, Britain, West Germany, Japan, India and the Soviet Union. Programs involving breeder reactors are under way in the Soviet Union, India, France, West Germany and Japan. (In 1983, the U.S. canceled its $4 billion Clinch River breeder facility, located...
Throughout the last few years of the Pakistani saga, the Reagan Administration has been severely criticized in Congress for giving military assistance to the Zia government without extracting further concrete assurances about Pakistan's nuclear program. The official U.S. position remains that Pakistan does not have atomic weapons and has not assembled the nuclear explosives to make them. But a top U.S. official says that the Administration remains "concerned" about Pakistan's efforts to obtain weapons technology. Washington discounts Indian suspicions of Pakistan's nuclear intentions as part of the long-standing rivalry between those two countries. Says a State...
...episode recalled the early 1980s, when Solidarity, the independent trade union, wielded its strike weapon to extract concessions from Poland's Communist leaders. Faced with a threatened 15-minute nationwide walkout called by the now banned labor organization, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week postponed planned food-price hikes averaging some 12%. Unlike the old days, both sides claimed victory. The authorities attributed their decision not to Solidarity's walkout plans but to actions by the officially sanctioned All-Poland Trade Union Alliance, which had also come out against the price rises. The government thus sought to turn...
...bypass surgery performed less than two years ago. "The scarring made it difficult to identify structures," explained Lansing, who assisted in the operation. "It's like looking through a fog." As a result, instead of taking the usual five minutes, it took half an hour just to extract the organ. Once that was accomplished, DeVries easily installed the Jarvik heart, using the technique he had practiced and honed on hundreds of animals...