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...government's headaches did not end there. Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical Paris weekly, charged that a French counterespionage agent had met with an "emissary" of the F.A.R.L. in Madrid last May; following that encounter and other alleged contacts in Damascus, the group had suspended its terrorist attacks in Paris in exchange for possible French leniency toward Abdallah. According to Le Canard, the deal was scotched when the U.S. intervened with a civil suit against Abdallah for his suspected role in the 1982 murder of the U.S. military attache. Chirac denied that his government had ever negotiated with the F.A.R.L...
...than U.S. accusations that government bigwigs are involved in drug trafficking. Last week the Mexicans were angrily denying a report in the San Diego Union charging that Defense Minister General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui was one of 45 law-enforcement and political figures linked to narcotics. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took the allegation so seriously that an official was dispatched to Washington to inquire whether the charges reflected U.S. thinking...
...threat. Negotiations are thus a spur, not a deterrent, to terror. Whenever a "peace scare" breaks out, terrorism increases, as King Hussein of Jordan is well aware. During the time he was trying to arrange for joint Jordanian- Palestinian negotiations with Israel, his diplomats in Ankara, Bucharest and Madrid were assassinated. The talks are off now, and Jordanians abroad are enjoying a rare respite from attack...
...mishandling of Cortez has already overshadowed all the gestures of goodwill exchanged by President Reagan and Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado in Washington three weeks ago. It has also highlighted the dangers that DEA agents face in Mexico, where police officers often regard their undercover allies from the U.S. as meddlesome intruders. Washington, in turn, views many of its local colleagues as potential enemies who have been corrupted by the very criminals they are supposed to be battling. "It's ! gotten a lot worse down there now," says one U.S. law-enforcement official, "because the agents aren...
...Cortez controversy is souring ties that were seemingly improved by the Washington meeting two weeks ago between Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and Ronald Reagan. U.S. officials last week called on the "highest levels of the Mexican government" to investigate. Mexican Attorney General Garcia Ramirez is probing the Cortez incident and has promised to issue a report...