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...arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste for new bombardments. "Most of our people think the Iraqis have suffered enough already," says a senior Egyptian diplomat...
...right to do so. Now there is a real opportunity to get to those face-to-face negotiations." He said he had not given Shamir a deadline for his response but hoped to get an answer before this week's U.S.-Soviet summit in Moscow. Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev were thinking of issuing invitations from the summit to an October peace conference...
Assad can see that he has little or no chance of forcibly taking back the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 war. The last slight hope for Soviet support for another war was snuffed out by a personal message Assad received from Gorbachev early in July. Its proposals, almost identical with those Bush had made, strongly reinforced U.S. arguments. Soviet officials delicately avoid calling it pressure, but one explains, "Gorbachev just sent a letter expressing our feeling that cooperation with the U.S. would be constructive and important...
...eyebrows were raised by an unusual private meeting MIKHAIL GORBACHEV scheduled during the London economic summit. The Soviet leader took time out from importuning Western leaders for economic help to greet his friend SRI CHINMOY, the New Age Indian guru. As French President Francois Mitterrand watched from the side, Gorbachev accepted a book of praise from the spiritual leader, who is based in Queens, N.Y. Gorbachev, who has been known to sprinkle speeches with terminology about his vision for a "new civilization" that obeys "new laws and logic," first met the guru last year on a state visit to Canada...
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