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...paid a $2 million bribe to Sheik Fadlallah to halt acts of violence against American interests by his Hezbollah Party in Lebanon. The bribe, paid after an assassination attempt failed, halted the hostilities...
...guerrillas to give up the fight and either head for the border or return home under a Nicaraguan amnesty program. Some of their leaders may even head the flight. In Washington, Rebel Leader Alfredo Cesar said last week that if U.S. aid dries up, contra officials may call a halt to all military actions, a decision they know would unsettle the Reagan Administration...
...Finance Officers Association, a national organization of public finance officials, is co-plaintiff in the Georgia suit. Fumes Mayor Young: "The Federal Government has been chipping away at our ability to finance necessary state and local governmental facilities for almost 20 years now. It is time to call a halt...
...guerrillas -- to allay her troops' concern, even as she disciplines the rebels. Indeed, some officers may have toed the Aquino line because of a threat to their goals. At the height of the coup attempt, Washington passed word to coup leaders that if they were successful, the U.S. would halt military aid to the Philippines, effectively paralyzing all operations against the Communists. Aquino, says U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, "has to organize her armed forces and find persons she can depend upon to probe these grievances and pull together an organization that she can depend on." Adds Lugar: "This is easier...
...empty supertankers, flying the flags of Panama, Japan, Pakistan and many other countries, lay at anchor last week in the Gulf of Oman, as did half a dozen U.S. warships. A menacing cluster of mines had brought the world's busiest oil traffic to a sudden and embarrassing halt. One after another, the explosives bobbed into sight. By week's end at least five had been spotted, and every tiny fishing boat that sailed by was carefully watched in case it tried to plant more of the dangerous devices...