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Alfonsin's concern, however, was both more pressing and more serious: the worsening crisis Argentina faces in trying to cope with a $45 billion foreign debt and a towering 800% annual inflation rate. Thus the main item on Alfonsin's agenda was a plea for more money. He got a sympathetic hearing but apparently not much concrete satisfaction...
Reagan strove to be as tactful on economic issues as Alfonsin was on political questions. The U.S. President chose not to reply directly to Argentina's most immediate plea for U.S. assistance, a request for a $500 million "bridge loan" to help the country ride out the debt crisis. But Reagan did assure Alfonsin that, as a U.S. official later put it, "we stand ready to help where we can." Later, Reagan aides expressed skepticism that the U.S. could or would do much on the debt question. "He would like our support," said one U.S. official...
While thus sounding a cautious overture to an adversary, Reagan did not shy away from disappointing a key friend in the Middle East. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called at the White House to make an impassioned plea for the U.S. to resume active efforts to mediate an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. He urged Reagan to invite a JordanianPalestinian delegation to Washington to discuss procedures and proposals...
...forsaking one's "roots" or one's "poorer bretheren"--as Mr. Farley condescendingly refers to the economically deprived members of our race. On the contrary, the "cosmopolitan imperative," rather than being a call to assimilate, to deny our origins in the ruthless pursuit of personal advancement, is instead a plea to Black students to work within the social and political structures of this country to bring about improvement. Professor Kilson feels that Black students have the responsibility of alerting non-Blacks to a problem that is not only ours but theirs as well: poverty and discrimination in the United States...
...plea was addressed to the "international community," but the message was obviously intended more for Washington than anywhere else. Following a special meeting in the Thai capital of Bangkok, the foreign ministers of six non- Communist Asian nations last week issued an unprecedented appeal for "support and assistance to the Kampuchean people" in the "military struggle" to oust their country's Vietnamese occupiers. To the representatives of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines), backing for Kampuchea these days means weapons. Comparing the Kampucheans with Afghan freedom fighters, Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi...