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David C. Berliner, Assistant Director Consumers Union Mount Vernon...
...Ambassador, Arthur Hartman, who attended the lunch and sat patiently through the attack, decided to mount a counterstrike. At a panel discussion in front of the same group of U.S. businessmen, Hartman berated the Kremlin for a host of actions, including the invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union's human rights record. He defended U.S. trade sanctions, saying that "it is not realistic to isolate our economic relationship from our overall political relationship." Hartman's speech, which was unusually harsh for the ambassador, drew an immediate rebuttal from Georgi Arbatov, a fellow panelist and director...
...troubles mount at home, Kohl prepares to visit Washington...
That is fine with the nations it is supposed to protect as long as the R.D.F. remains out of sight, but not out of mind. When the U.S. tries to mount training exercises in the area, it encounters political and diplomatic obstacles almost as daunting as the logistical challenge of airlifting halfway around the world the Seventh Marine Amphibious Brigade, which is stationed at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif...
...week's end, Suzuki and party officials had failed to agree on a single candidate but still hoped to do so in the next few days. That would allow the party to avoid a national referendum, in which candidates must mount a costly campaign and expose party policies to public debate. Nevertheless, whoever becomes the new Prime Minister will inherit not only Suzuki's job, but most of the problems that he pledged to solve...