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...have recently pressed their campaign against the Israeli-backed militia known as the South Lebanon Army, which protects the security zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border. The current drive began late last month, when guerrillas backed by Syria and Iran launched the most concerted barrage of Katyusha rockets against northern Israel since 1982. Warned Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "If normal life is not permitted to go on in northern Israel, there will be no normal life in southern Lebanon--if there will be any life...
...union said it hoped to persuade the company to change its mind. But unemployment in Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent homeland, is high. The South African Chamber of Mines, which recruits workers throughout the region, already has 400,000 job applications on file. NORTHERN IRELAND Protestants Vent Their Rage...
...march began as a peaceful protest against the two-month-old agreement between Britain and Ireland, which grants Dublin a say in Northern Ireland's affairs. But after 2,500 Protestants arrived at the gates of Maryfield House, the headquarters of the Anglo-Irish secretariat outside Belfast, the march became a melee. Toughs hurled paving stones at Royal Ulster constabulary, injuring 26 officers. Unionist leaders denounced the violence but warned of a "complete collapse of government here" if Britain did not end the accord...
...talks, the Soviets protested the U.S. deployment of F-16 fighters in northern Japan and urged Tokyo to consider carefully any participation in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, program. The Japanese, led by Foreign Secretary Shintaro Abe, countered by expressing "strong regret" over the Soviet military buildup in the northwestern Pacific, including the deployment of an estimated 135 SS-20 intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Discussions on economic matters proved more constructive. The two countries signed a pact governing taxes on Soviet-Japanese trade and agreed to meet annually for talks on development projects in Siberia...
...Patrick's Day came a bit early on Capitol Hill last week. In the midst of Congress's struggle to pare the federal budget and close the gaping deficit, the House agreed by voice vote to send $250 million over the next five years to Northern Ireland. The money will go into an international economic-support fund established under an Anglo-Irish agreement signed last year by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Irish counterpart Garret Fitz-Gerald to give Catholics more of a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. The aid proposal allied two politicians who share...