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...scheduled stationing of 48 cruises on Dutch soil by the end of 1986. For the first time, politicians were predicting that when the deployment plan comes up for parliamentary approval in June, Lubbers will almost certainly fall short of the required majority. Influential peace groups, including the Inter-Church Peace Council, have united to mobilize public opinion against deployment. According to opinion polls, 63% of Sthe Dutch people are opposed to deployment. Taking note of the strong opposition, a senior U.S. official recently warned that a Dutch decision against deployment could be "a severe, possibly fatal blow" to the resumption...
...week began, the players in the debt poker game came together, appropriately enough, at the Hotel Casino San Rafael, the site of a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in the seaside resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Grinspun headed the Argentine delegation, while William Rhodes, representing Citicorp, led an eleven-member team of bankers. One banker joked that Punta del Este would witness its most explosive confrontation since three British cruisers challenged the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the shores of the resort in December...
Despite noted increases in body radiation content among the Micronese from nuclear testing, the United States government continues testing nuclear weaponry and delivery systems in the area. Virtually all of the U.S. inter-continental ballistic missiles, including the Polaris, Minutemen and Trident, have been tested at the Kwajalein Missiles Range in Micronesia...
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...departure of the British, the Italians and the bulk of the American contingent, the 1,250-man French unit was the only component of the Multi-National Force left hi Lebanon. French officials said again last week that they hoped to stay on until some different kind of inter-I national force replaced them...