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...impasse seemed to harden last month when Chinese negotiators warned that any date beyond the year 2000 "would not be acceptable." Lisbon, it seems, would have liked to hold on a little longer, perhaps until 2007, in order to celebrate 450 years of continuous Portuguese settlement in Macao. Still, reports surfaced last week in Lisbon that Portuguese officials are now tilting toward a return date of 1999, just two years after China assumes sovereignty over the neighboring British colony of Hong Kong...
Earlier in the week Aquino seemed to harden her stance against the rebels, who have refused to discuss a cease-fire since Olalia's murder. Said the President: "We shall never be slaves again -- not to the Communists, who did nothing to help us recover our democracy, nor to the sad remnants of the right who hanker to be our masters again." In the next six weeks the President must continue to reassert her authority in a way that will satisfy the nation and dissipate the rebellious mood within the armed forces...
This clash over what must come first may harden. The United Democratic Front, the largest apartheid coalition, which claims more than 600 organizations with 2 million members, now calls for nothing less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
Reagan has been following a go-slow regimen so that his body's "cement" can harden properly after major surgery last July for a cancerous polyp in his bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...
...been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full of C-130 transport aircraft parts and satellite scanners. "The Russians are sweating," declares Customs Service Commissioner William von Raab. "They used...