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...targeting Kerr for assassination, the killers chose a man who had spent much of his life promoting trust and friendship between the West and the Arab world. Kerr was born in Beirut, the son of an American biochemistry professor at the university. He studied there and at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Later he taught political science for 20 years at the University of California at Los Angeles. But Kerr always dreamed of returning...
...British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared that the two countries were bound "in a friendship of steel." Upon returning home, he gave his blessing to the accreditation of an American ambassador less than three years after expelling four U.S. diplomats on charges of spying. And last week in their capital city of Maputo, which has been blasted three times by South African raids, Mozambique officials began...
...Brannaman suggests that if the Israelis don't like "the solution, they could return in large numbers to Russia..." But the again, what does Mr. Brannaman understand of mutual friendship and self-determination and democracy? And to condemn Communism as a Jewish creation makes about as much sense as condemning philosophy as a pagan creation--the particular school of thought has nothing to do with the religion of the human beings who developed it. (Good gods! Evolution is a Christian creation, and algebra and astronomy are Moslem creations...
...antiaircraft missiles to Chad; it has also negotiated the use of port facilities and airstrips in Kenya and Somalia. "We are undergoing a second colonialization," protests a Tanzanian academic. "Our present leaders are just like the old tribal chiefs who signed pacts with colonizers for a few beads. Friendship and military pacts are now penciled up in return for guns, aid or cash loans. Africa is up for grabs...
...China and skillfully down-playing difficulties of the past. When reporters alluded to one of the more recent "difficulties"-President Reagan's reference to Taiwan as the "Republic of China" during his visit to Japan in November-Zhao acknowledged that the President's feeling of friendship for Taiwan was understandable. In a noteworthy gesture of conciliation, Zhao added that he would not ask Reagan to stop U.S. arms sales to Taiwan "completely and immediately...