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At the Algiers conference, Western observers were dismayed to see Abul Abbas, one of the 15 members of the P.L.O.'s executive committee, who is wanted by the U.S. and Italy for his role in the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. At week's end after Abbas...
The attacks seemed designed to divide the country even further -- and reduce the options available to the beleaguered Jayewardene government. Though many Sinhalese in Colombo have Tamil relatives and friends, the growing violence has forced moderates on both sides to drift toward the extremes. Some analysts speculate that this is...
Colonel North's tactic of hiding his true objectives--trading arms for hostages--behind seemingly more appropriate ones--appealing to Iranin moderates--looks like standard Administration policy. Of course cheap politics is all too thoroughly American; but with an issue such as drugs, where so much uncontroversial good could have...
Brandt, 73, who had been SPD leader since 1964, fell victim to the intense feuding between leftists and moderates that has virtually paralyzed the party. The crowning controversy was his effort to appoint a 30-year-old Greek emigre named Margarita Mathiopoulos as the party's chief spokeswoman. Not only...
Short of U.S. military intervention, the only alternative to supporting a guerrilla action is to bolster the diplomatic efforts that were part of the contra policy. Moderates in Congress claim the Administration has done little to advance the negotiations. Democratic Congressman Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, a past supporter of contra...