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...part, the Administration can certainly point to some signs, however slight, of an increased pace in the dialogue with Moscow. Last week both countries signed a multiyear grain pact, and the U.S. ended its restrictions on the sale of pipelaying tractors to the Soviets. Most intriguing of all was an offer from Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. He seemed to suggest, for the first time, that the Soviets might now be willing to destroy 81 of their 243 SS-20s in Europe so as to equal the number of British and French missiles targeted at the Soviet Union. He said...
...Salvation Front with the deliberate aim of opposing Gemayel. The front struck an alliance with Syria and demanded that Gemayel renounce the May 17 agreement according to which Israel would withdraw its troops if Lebanon agreed to security and political guarantees. It has also insisted that the 1943 National Pact, which gives Maronite Christians the presidency and other dominant positions in the Lebanese government, be renegotiated...
...Central America? Reagan last week had Special Envoy Richard Stone hand-carry a letter to the Presidents of the so-called Contadora countries (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama, which first met last January on the Panamanian island of Contadora) praising their efforts to work out such a regional pact. In so doing he quite unintentionally joined, of all people, Cuban President Fidel Castro, who lauded the Contadorans' efforts. But the Administration at the same time gave a cautious reception to a Nicaraguan offer to participate in multilateral peace talks and negotiate six specific points. Indeed, Reagan's letter...
Agreeing to a wilderness pact...
Your story on János Fekete, "Hungary's Savvy Banker" [June 27], sounds like an advertisement from the National Bank of Hungary. As long as Hungary belongs to the Warsaw Pact, its bankers and businessmen cannot seriously be considered independent thinkers. After Poland's failure, the Kremlin is using Hungary in its desperate search for Western credits. Although you assert that Hungary has the "most efficient economy in the Communist world," the truth is that the Communist economic system simply does not work...