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...something might delay the scheduled Israeli pullout from the Sinai on April 25. As he started his Falklands shuttle, Haig dispatched his No. 2 man, Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, in the hope that his mere presence would have a calming effect. The Israeli bombing of Lebanon at midweek stirred U.S. officials to private fury, but the State Department contented itself with a mild public statement while getting messages to the P.L.O. urging that nothing be done to give Israel an excuse for a wider attack...
...shut up." Tennessee Republican Howard Baker, probably the Senate's most effective Majority Leader since the days of Lyndon Johnson, agrees: "We've got to do it this week" (see following story). Informally, the contending parties facing off along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue have set a midweek deadline for ending four weeks of delicate, closed-door negotiations over the budget...
Falklands, the remote British colony that Argentina had invaded a fortnight earlier. Steaming at an estimated 18 knots, the armada was expected to be on station by midweek. Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had already stationed four submarines, three of them nuclear powered, inside a 200-mile "maritime exclusion zone" around the Falklands, and threatened to fire on any Argentine ship that challenged the blockade. Argentina must unconditionally withdraw from the Falklands, Thatcher insisted to the approval of 80% of her countrymen, or Britain would fight...
...proposal from four former senior Government officials that the U.S. pledge never to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Reagan ducked a question on the subject at a meeting with reporters early in the week and left his Administration's reply to Haig, who contended in a midweek speech that any such no-first-use pledge would leave Western Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference in New York in June and confer...
Duarte, who had been robbed of the 1972 presidential election and later fled into exile, vowed to fight this latest challenge. "Five hundred thousand voters cannot be ignored," he told reporters at a midweek "victory" party. Said Christian Democrat Leader Julio Adolfo Rey-Prendes ominously: "If we are not in the government, all the people who voted for us will lose faith in democracy. If you lose faith in democracy, you have to find other ways to power...