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...Reagan Administration, which has been supplying arms to the rebels through a clandestine CIA pipeline, was closely watching the latest offensive. "We don't think the Soviets can beat the Afghans," said one official. Washington fears, however, that heavy rebel casualties and the psychological toll of battle could slow resistance as the war grinds on. Concurred Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is beginning to look like a very bleak future for the mujahedin." The new Soviet drive is certain to be one of the first topics when stalemated talks aimed at ending...
...first mass demonstrations against the U.S. since the pacifist wave of 1983 erupted last week around U.S. military bases and in major West European cities from Milan to Madrid. Thousands marched through streets, calling President Reagan a murderer and demanding that their country withdraw from NATO. The protesters mirrored the official positions of most European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian...
...Washington, the Reagan Administration hailed the proposed reforms as a "major milestone on the road away from apartheid." But public reaction inside South Africa was mixed. Business groups and other moderates cheered the news. The government's actions, said John Kane-Berman, director of the antiapartheid South African Institute of Race Relations, rank along with the legalization of black trade unions in 1979 as "the most important reform in South Africa since World War II." Many black activists, on the other hand, viewed the measure--welcome as it is--as too little, too late. "Apartheid cannot be reformed," says Patrick...
That argument sits well with the White House, which is also suing to in validate Gramm-Rudman. The Reagan Administration's chief courtroom attorney, Solicitor General Charles Fried, pressed the Administration's view before the Supreme Court last week. The Comptroller's duties under Gramm-Rudman "affect every nook and cranny of the Executive Department," he contended. During two hours of argument, twice the normally allotted time, lawyers for the House, the Senate and the Comptroller came to the law's defense. Steven Ross, representing the bipartisan leadership of the House, rejected the claim that the Comptroller was answerable...
Maybe not this year. As President Reagan and his aides prepare to fly this week to Bali for a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and then to Tokyo for the twelfth annual summit, on May 4 to 6, the excursion augurs well to be both a practical and a ceremonial success. The reason: as they nudge their economies through a fourth year of sustained growth, the industrialized countries are showing a capacity for cooperation unmatched in recent years. Looking ahead to the three-day conclave in Tokyo's imposing Akasaka Palace, the imperial guesthouse, officials from...