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Despite evidence that the U.S. is usually reluctant to exert pressure on Israel in matters of war and peace and doubts that Israel would listen anyway, Hussein sees Bush's experience in foreign affairs as reason for Arab optimism. "The U.S. can do much with Israel, and it needs to do much in the times ahead," he said. Bush "knows the area. With all due respect, I had many meetings with President Reagan, ((but)) he had other priorities. Of all the problems the world has, ((the Middle East)) is the most dangerous...
...wonder why he fears an international conference. It will lead immediately to direct negotiations," as Shamir demands. Shamir is now suggesting he might countenance U.N. sponsorship to launch peace talks, but he remains firmly opposed to any more substantive international participation. In a separate interview in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens explained why. At an international conference, he said, "there's the danger of having pressure applied to you, not by the party with whom you have to make peace but by other parties who may have other interests...
Described by an aide as "a tornado in a wheat field," Bennett as drug czar would have to be a deft persuader and work with dozens of agencies like the CIA and the Pentagon as well as foreign governments like Bolivia and Colombia. That may not come easy for his heretical nature...
...Rabta, 50 miles southwest of Tripoli, which began showing up in satellite photos in 1985, was indeed a chemical-weapons plant. Code-named "Pharma-150" by the Libyans, the plant was built under tight security conditions, with a 1,300-man force of cheap labor imported from Thailand. Foreign consultants entered the country without visas and left no hotel or other records of their stay in Libya...
International negotiations on chemical weapons are scheduled to resume in Geneva under United Nations auspices on Feb. 7. George Bush, for one, promised last week to make control of such arms a major foreign policy objective of his Administration. As the controversy over the Libyan facility vividly demonstrates, however, controlling the behavior of a terrorist state -- and of Western firms willing to do business with such countries -- is not easy...