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...from the details of foreign policy while making repeated forays on behalf of a tax plan most people appear to have forgotten. He also found himself slightly out of step with his advisers on Israel's attack last week on P.L.O. headquarters in Tunisia. After initially characterizing the reprisal raid as "legitimate," he later sent "condolences" to the Tunisian government...
...raid struck a blow at the precarious detente that exists between white- ruled South Africa and six neighboring black-governed countries: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Earlier in the week, the leaders of those so-called frontline states had issued a joint statement urging increased international pressure against Pretoria's apartheid policies, including the use of economic sanctions. The leaders admitted that they were concerned about the potentially disastrous impact of such sanctions on their own economies, which depend heavily on South Africa's. Nonetheless, they said they saw no other way of bringing about peaceful change...
Last week's South African foray revived concerns of a different sort. Angola charged that the raid was not so much aimed at flushing out guerrillas of the South West African People's Organization as at supporting Angolan insurgents fighting against the Marxist government in Luanda. (South Africa later admitted that it was aiding the Angolan resistance.) The Angolan government said the action violated a 1984 accord under which South Africa agreed to withdraw its forces from southern Angola in exchange for Angola's promise to prohibit SWAPO forces from operating there. The accusation followed the disclosure that South Africa...
Assaults into Nicaragua by anti-Sandinista guerrillas have in the past provoked occasional Nicaraguan shelling of border towns in neighboring Honduras, where the U.S.-backed contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force maintain their base camps. The most recent raid, late last week, drew an unusually heavy Nicaraguan mortar barrage near the town of Arenales; one Honduran soldier was killed and eight others were wounded. In response, the Honduran air force dispatched, for the first time, some of its U.S.-made F-86 jet fighters to attack Nicaraguan positions. The Hondurans said the aircraft fired on Sandinista troop concentrations and shot...
...seeking regulatory approval to increase its stake to as much as 15%. While it may lack the financial clout to stage a successful takeover, GAF could force Union Carbide to hand over a treasured division, perhaps one of its specialty-chemicals businesses, as a payoff to end the hostile raid...