Word: foreing
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...Haig will be able to quit in fact as well as in name. (He left Washington last Thursday for a Fourth of July weekend in West Virginia, uncertain when, or if, he would be back.) But such a settlement will only bring a new set of problems to the fore. The U.S. will then have to work out some formula for an Israeli withdrawal from a neutralized Lebanon. The goal, after that, will be to revive the long-stalled negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
Although it was no secret that Communists were involved in the peace movement from its inception, the issue came to the fore at a meeting held in Bad Godesberg in April to plan the June rally. Repeatedly, leaders of Protestant and environmentalist groups that led the antinuclear protest last year were shouted down. A proposal to mention Soviet missiles at this week's rally was loudly booed, then voted down. A motion calling for a "nonviolent" demonstration against Reagan was rejected. Later, Ernst Hoplitscheck, a spokesman for the Greens, West Germany's ecology party, charged that...
Whether the rift between the U.S. and its Latin neighbors will prove serious depends on how long the Falklands dispute lasts. While the U.S. and Britain are aligned against a Latin American nation, "Hispanidad," the tradition of Latin American solidarity, will remain at the fore, overshadowing a myriad of inter-American territorial and ideological disputes, like Argentina's quarrel with Chile over the Beagle Channel. Already there are mutterings within the Organization of American States about moving the headquarters of that hemispheric coalition out of Washington, or forming a purely Hispanic rival group. Said a senior O.A.S. official: "Never...
...Falklands. Conditions guarantee an ugly, unpleasant engagement. The Falklands, cold, damp, desolate clumps of rock set in a storm-tossed ocean, are a dismal place for military operations. By last weekend the Argentine forces, composed in part of raw recruits conscripted only months be fore, were dug in on the mossy, treeless, windy wasteland. They were waiting for British troops, who, though surely more experienced and better trained, had al ready endured what must have seemed like an eternity of confinement and sea sickness on the violent South Atlantic. It appeared, as it has been from the first, a confrontation...
There is a "better than even chance" fore recovery before the summer, said MIT economist Paul A. Samuelson But he added that any recovery would be weak because high interest rates will discourage investment...