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...talks between Washington and Tehran have been aborted by the Iranscam scandal, negotiations on the blocked funds are the only known contact between the two countries. The U.S. has acknowledged that the money belongs to Iran, but the two sides remain divided over a welter of technical details. At midweek the latest round of talks ended inconclusively...
...goes as his doctors have forecast, Ronald Reagan will return to the White House from Bethesda Naval Hospital at midweek -- a month before his 76th birthday -- ready to face the challenges of his last two years in office. But with how much energy and effectiveness? The answer depends only partly on the outcome of the colonoscopy and prostate surgery scheduled for the President early this week. Even if those procedures turn out to be as routine as predicted and Reagan once again demonstrates his remarkable powers of physical recuperation, he faces a daunting task of political recovery. Almost immediately...
Anger among European officials was fanned further at midweek when Ciba- Geigy, Switzerland's largest chemical company, admitted spilling about 105 gal. of the herbicide Atrazine into the Rhine the night before the Sandoz fire. The discharge of the chemicals, which is forbidden by law, was discovered only after officials tested the river for pollution from the Sandoz accident. While a Swiss water official asserted that the Ciba-Geigy accident did not kill the fish, the disclosure increased demands for stricter laws regulating chemical storage...
...Enrile's persistent opposition. Ignoring his calls for immediate presidential elections, she set Feb. 2 as the date for a plebiscite on a new charter that would grant her a full six-year term in office. She announced that legislative elections would be held next May 11. At midweek government negotiators reopened talks with Communist rebels, an Aquino initiative that Enrile has sharply criticized. Only one day earlier, Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila had publicly endorsed Aquino's peace feelers. Said he: "Our faith will tell us to give peace a chance...
Officials in Manila and Washington responded with varying degrees of alarm. Despite a large pro-Aquino rally at midweek and the President's calm assurances that she does "not feel threatened by Minister Enrile," some prophesied Enrile's dismissal, others his resignation. There were predictions that Enrile would try to wring concessions from Aquino that would render the President a figurehead. Some officials even heard the faint rumbles of a coup. All agreed, however, that Aquino was facing the toughest political challenge since she assumed office...