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Moderates feared that a Benn victory would cause further defections to the centrist Social Democratic Party, formed in March by four former Labour Cabine members.
Now Solidarity's leaders are faced with uncertainty over what to do next. Moderates like Walesa try to strike a balance between attack and accommodation; some of his lieutenants think only in terms of striking out at the Communist establishment. Like all Poles, they are obsessed with their history...
Outwardly, Schmidt reacted coolly to the U.S. decision. In a television interview from his summer retreat north of Hamburg, he said that West Germany would accept the neutron weapon if other European NATO members would, and if arms negotiations with the Soviet Union failed. In private, he gave vent to...
Yet Israel denies that the cease-fire represented anything like it; Jerusalem remains implacably opposed to dealing with the P.L.O. Warned Begin last week: "If at any time, anybody brings in that murderous neo-Nazi organization [the P.L.O.], then they will negotiate with that organization, but the chair reserved for...
Because it is so shaky, Begin's new government is expected to be even more ineffectual than the last. In one of his first declarations after forming a government, Begin called for an "undelayed resumption" of the Camp David process. This would include talks with Egypt, as urged last...