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...Poindexter a man he could control. The new National Security Adviser did manage to resolve two long-standing policy disputes within the Administration: he mediated the decisions to abandon U.S. observance of the unratified SALT II treaty and to retaliate against terrorism by launching the 1986 air strike against Libya. But he showed no interest in explaining policy. The press lambasted him for writing a memo last August urging a campaign of "disinformation" against Libya. Congressmen complained he was excessively secretive in dealing with them too. Said Poindexter: "It's true we need to get out our story better...
...Hafez Assad, to show some signs of moderation in order to increase his influence with his neighbors. In April, not long after his return from a trip to Moscow, Assad went to Jordan for a secret meeting with his long-time enemy, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. Except for Libya, Syria is the only Arab state that backs non-Arab Iran in its seven-year war with Arab Iraq. Assad is believed unlikely to be ready to change sides in the gulf war, in part because of the oil concessions he gets from Iran. Nonetheless, the meeting raised hopes that...
...major world power. She presided over the 1982 victory against Argentina in the Falklands war, and despite domestic opposition, pressed ahead with the modernization of Britain's aging Polaris nuclear submarine fleet, accepted U.S. cruise missiles on British soil and last year allowed U.S. F-111s to strike Libya from British air bases. Her visit to Moscow in April, during which she spent 13 hours in private with Mikhail Gorbachev, cemented her position as a world figure. British cartoonists have even taken to portraying her with a Churchillian cigar. She plans to visit Reagan in July, and it is likely...
Much of the credit belongs to de Borchgrave, 60, a Newsweek foreign correspondent for 29 years before joining the Times in 1985. Sometimes de Borchgrave calls a wrong shot (a Times exclusive that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi had fled to Yemen remained exactly that: an exclusive), but overall, the editor rates highly with his staff. "He's not an intellectual genius, but he's incredibly passionate and energetic," says David Brooks, who recently left the Times for the Wall Street Journal...
Vanuatu's Lini, one of the few leaders in the region who defend Libya, argues that Gaddafi merely wants to send economic aid to the impoverished island states and help the Kanak independence movement in New Caledonia, a cause endorsed even by Australia. Nonetheless, Hawke plans to make the Libyan threat a topic of discussion at this weekend's meeting of the 13-nation South Pacific Forum, and has dispatched a representative to brief member governments on the need to send Gaddafi's men packing...