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...Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, reporting from India and Pakistan, began studying the black market in nuclear technology in 1978, when he ran TIME's Cairo bureau. Says he: "That's when I first heard that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's strongman, was trying to get a nuclear weapon." After his reassignment to South Asia three years ago, Brelis started to amass notes about developments on the Indian subcontinent. He found that some of the most reliable sources on the Pakistani nuclear program were Indian officials and scientists. (Fittingly, the Pakistanis were prime founts of information about Indian nuclear progress.) Says...
...tour of Eastern and Western Europe with the announcement that Moscow had agreed to supply up to 90% of Nicaragua's oil needs. Since estimates are that the Soviet Union already provides some 75% to 90% of Nicaragua's consumption of 14,000 bbl. a day (Iran, Algeria and Libya supply the rest), a new promise of Soviet support was hardly a major revelation. But Ortega was full of bravado as he climbed out of an East German airplane onto the tarmac in Managua. "Our country is sovereign, not one more state of the United States," he said...
...Korea, which has been under a U.S. embargo since 1950. Sanctions against Viet Nam go back to 1954, and those against Kampuchea to 1975. These countries and Cuba face an American denial of all trade, travel and finance. Various U.S. economic restrictions have been imposed on other countries, including Libya, Iran, Iraq, South Yemen, Syria and South Africa...
...word in Khartoum last week was reconciliation: with the Sudanese people, with former enemy Libya and with antigovernment rebels in the south. The ruling military council, which took over after the ouster of President Gaafar Nimeiri last month, appointed a 15-man Cabinet, all but two of them civilians. The military will continue to wield power until elections, which the council has pledged will be held in a year's time...
...council also renewed diplomatic relations with Libya last week, having already asked Libyan exiles hostile to Strongman Muammar Gaddafi to leave the country. In return, Gaddafi, who has supported the 10,000 Sudanese rebels led by former Army Colonel John Garang, urged them to make peace with the new ; government in Khartoum. But the council has so far been unable to achieve a reconciliation with Garang, who said his rebels would continue to fight until the government is entirely in the hands of civilians. His intransigence may lessen, however. Said a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "There is already...