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...viewed as the direct historical descendant of the Feb. 27, 1972, Shanghai Communique signed by President Nixon), China affirmed as "fundamental policy" the quest for "peaceful reunification" of Taiwan with China. For its part, the U.S. declared its intention, for the first time ever, to reduce and possibly eventually halt arms sales to Taiwan...
Inevitably, the Thursday attack brought an abrupt halt to the peace talks. Lebanese Prime Minister Chafik al Wazzan, who had been serving as an intermediary between the P.L.O. and the American negotiators, declared that he could no longer continue to participate while his "beloved Beirut" was being bombarded. With tears of outrage in his eyes, the Prime Minister told Habib that if the Israelis were bent on destroying Beirut and its people, "then let them kill us all now and get it over with, and let you and the U.S. bear the consequences." Wazzan's performance was both heartfelt...
...prisoner persuaded his family not to intervene, but Attorney J. Gray Lawrence, whom Coppola had fired, filed an appeal anyway. It was rejected by a federal district court judge. But with 8½ hours to go, Judge John Butzner of the U.S. court of appeals in Richmond called a halt, saying that the years on death row might have robbed Coppola of the capacity to decide the question and noting that a constitutional review of Virginia's death penalty was pending in another case. Governor Charles Robb ordered an immediate appeal. Two state attorneys flew to Washington...
...made armored equipment in southern Lebanon. When Washington protested Jerusalem first refused to remove the equipment; later the Israelis claimed to have done so, but U.S. surveillance showed otherwise. An enraged Jimmy Carter informed Israel that if the weapons were not moved forthwith, he would ask Congress to halt all arms sales to Israel. Only then did Jerusalem bow to Washington's wishes...
...stir much enthusiasm among Parisians. Though it has a 16 (out of 20) rating from Gault et Millau, the authoritative Paris columnists (awarded before the hotel opened), other critics have found the restaurant memorable mostly for the Mozart played by a string trio at mealtimes. In any event, despite Halt's philosophy ("A guest should never have to stir outside his hotel"), Paris is not the kind of city where visitors feel constrained to eat where they sleep. Besides, there is the Rolls and, to make outside restaurant reservations, the beautiful Margaret, who is indisputably the most attractive head...