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...states basically want a settlement with Israel along the lines of the Fahd plan. Moreover, some of the states depend on Saudi funds, as does the P.L.O. But a number of Arab governments are now put off by Israeli intransigence and the fact that the U.S. has not given firmer backing to the Fahd proposal...
...Reagan Administration, pitting very hardliners against the medium hardliners, has turned on whether the U.S. should try to get its allies to agree to the "threat assessment"-what NATO is up against, weapon by weapon, front by front-before working out the NATO negotiating position on the TNF. The firmer the NATO agreement on the threat, the firmer, presumably, the U.S. bargaining position on TNF. In a National Security Council meeting, President Reagan chose a more flexible approach-try for informal NATO consensus on the threat but go ahead in any case preparing to negotiate. Reagan has thus sided with...
...immediate intention of the new, firmer measures is to rid the U.S. of the most recently arrived Haitian illegals, but officials also hope to discourage would-be immigrants still in Haiti. Explains an INS staff member: "We can't be home to the world's poor. It's as simple as that...
...ties to the Soviet Union, which supplied the SA-6 missiles that were the cause of contention. At their summit meeting, Sadat said that he and Begin had a "full understanding," in the words of the Prime Minister, about the dangers of the Soviets' getting a firmer foothold in the Middle East...
Indeed, British resolve seemed firmer than ever in the wake of a spectacular bombing earlier in the week that left five soldiers dead near McCreesh's home village of Camlough in Armagh County. The 1,000-lb. device, planted by the I.R.A. in a culvert and detonated by remote control, pulverized a passing ten-ton Saracen armored car, scattering fragments and bodies around a 300-yd. radius...