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Faced with such wide-ranging differences of viewpoint, Haig decided, as he told reporters on the way to Cairo, that "the time has come for me to make a firsthand assessment on the ground." That is precisely what he did. His aim was not to offer ideas but to assess the degrees of flexibility on both sides. For a day and a half, he talked with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali and other officials in Cairo...
...Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger learned firsthand on a trip through Europe to drum up support for the sanctions, the Europeans are opposed to punishing the Soviet Union unless it openly intervenes in Poland. At the heart of the allied opposition is the belief that sanctions, no matter how well meaning, do not work. As one Italian politician noted cynically, "Carter adopted sanctions against the Soviets to get them out of Afghanistan. They still are in Afghanistan." Said a British trade official: "Trade is a very difficult sanction to apply; like water, it will always find a way through...
Much of this nationalistic fervor arises from what the children have seen firsthand as well as what they have been taught-as Nabil pointed out in the West Bank-so it is not fair to regard them solely as their elders' tools. Also their indoctrination may be indirect. The normal conversation of parents will influence children in any circumstance, and it would be a lot to ask of Palestinian parents that they display a political evenhandedness they do not feel. It may even be that for children like those in the Tel Zaatar home, this single-mindedness...
...Eastern European Bureau Chief Richard Hornik spent the first ten days of Poland's state of emergency in Gdansk and Warsaw, operating as best he could under a communications blackout, tight censorship and restrictions on travel. Last week he flew from Warsaw to Paris, where he wrote this firsthand account of life under General Jaruzelski 's martial-law regime. His report...
...assassinate Reagan, few believed that they were in any real danger of Libyan retaliation. For the occasion, Gaddafi eased usually tight restrictions on journalists to invite members of the foreign press to hear him, presumably, denounce Washington's claims. TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty flew to Tripoli for a firsthand look at the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (state of the masses), as the nation has been renamed. His report...