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Alarm over the Acre proposal, first aired in January, has been so strong that President George Bush reportedly asked Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to clarify whether his government had any plans to finance the highway. Takeshita said Japan had yet to receive a request from Brazil for funding. As President Sarney's speech last week demonstrated, the proud Brazilians will not be easily deterred. Officials insist that the highway from Acre to Peru will be built in spite of the clamor it has aroused...
...Mike-class sub was equipped to carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Soviet military spokesmen refused to say whether any such weapons were aboard, but Moscow acted quickly to try to dispel international concerns. Only hours after returning home from London, Mikhail Gorbachev sent reassuring messages to President Bush, British Prime Minister Thatcher and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The power plant on the stricken sub had been shut down before the vessel sank, declared Gorbachev, who added, "The possibility of a nuclear explosion and radioactive pollution of the environment is excluded...
...term expired in September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...
...however, Yitzhak Shamir. Determined to resist any American effort to press him into major negotiations or concessions, the Israeli Prime Minister told journalists flying with him to the U.S., "I am immune to pressure." So he was. For the Israeli delegation, the absence of any public breach between the two nations during two days of talks was itself a victory. Shamir had feared that President Bush might push an international peace conference, which he had cautiously endorsed during earlier meetings last week with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. And Shamir was deeply aggrieved by another Bush pronouncement, urging Israel...
...best policy is one of patient incrementalism. "The President does not believe conditions now exist for making peace, but he would like to see those conditions fostered, step by step," said the U.S. official. "Time is on our side." That, however, may mean years -- and a change in Prime Ministers...