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...voluntary exile abroad, he became an active spokesman against Park's authoritarian rule. In 1973 he was kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel room by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and dragooned back to Seoul. He remained under house arrest and later imprisonment until 1978. In the brief hiatus of political relaxation that followed Park's assassination last October, Kim was considered the foremost candidate for the free presidential elections that the military-backed transitional government promised to call in the near future...
Despite his disillusionment with Begin, Sadat indicated last week that he still regards the Camp David framework as the most promising way to a wider peace. Meanwhile, the Egyptians have launched a global diplomatic campaign to explain why Sadat asked for a hiatus in the negotiations. Among the emissaries dispatched abroad is Butros Ghali, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who flew to Rumania for a five-day official visit. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu played a key role in preparing Sadat's historic mission to Jerusalem in 1977. Ceausescu, who heads the only East bloc nation that still...
...diversionary tactic." Privately, Administration officials were even more concerned about the drift of events because the provocations and counterprovocations, which to some extent seemed to be outside the control of the participants, raised serious questions about the durability of the U.S. Middle East peace policy in the national-election hiatus. U.S. policymakers have to wonder whether the U.S. can afford to stand by ineffectually as Middle East tensions rise...
...irrational, but visions of draft lotteries have entered my mind again after a long hiatus because the law now requires me and four million men my age to register in just a few weeks. I do not object to a meaningful commitment to one's nation; what bothers me is the blatantly political evolution of this particular method for showing patriotic devotion...
After a troubling hiatus of suspended peace talks and intensified violence in the occupied West Bank, Israel and Egypt last week began to inch back to the bargaining table. In quick succession, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin both accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to send their top negotiators to Washington in early July. There was little cause for celebration; everyone knew that formidable differences remain on the issue of Palestinian autonomy and that no major concessions are likely to be made by either side before the U.S. election. Moreover...