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...next day Begin said that U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar would not be welcome to visit Jerusalem if he went through with a plan to meet with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. Still later in the week, when the Security Council debated a resolution to condemn Israel for defying previous U.N. demands on Lebanon, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum got into an angry argument with Soviet Ambassador Richard Ovinnikov. The Soviet diplomat told the council that his government favored "severe action" against Israel because it was "imperative that Beirut not join the list of cities such...
...created Center Party musters enough seats to help make up the difference and put the Socialists into office, it could ward off a growing challenge from a right-wing coalition led by Popular Alliance Leader Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a onetime minister under Francisco Franco. That, apparently, is Suárez's aim. "The possibility of coalitions is a matter to be reckoned with after elections," the former Prime Minister said last week. "The Socialist Party knows that it can count on our support and our respect if they...
Estimates of the total number of dead, injured and homeless varied wildly. United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said that 1.5 million people-half the population of the country-had been affected by the fighting. According to Lebanese sources, about 10,000 were killed and 16,000 wounded. The State Department's Agency for International Development said that about 600,000 people from Beirut and southern Lebanon had been "directly affected." But officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is distributing medical supplies in Lebanon, called these estimates "much exaggerated...
...supplies from reaching Lebanon, the U.S. and other Western countries prepared to send aid to the civilian victims of the war. In Washington, a House panel voted $20 million in emergency help for Lebanon. France sent the ship Argens with 35 tons of supplies. U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar announced that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency would supply $1.5 million for food, medicine, shelter and other necessities, and the U.N. World Food Program would deliver food worth $11.5 million...
...adamant is Thatcher toward the junta that she would not agree to any face-to-face talks, private or public, by any British official with the Argentine government. Britain would hope to use as intermediaries either Secretary of State Haig or U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar. Their first job would be to convince the Argentines that they are in a no-win position with a Britain, says a top government official, that has both the "resources and will power to stick it out indefinitely in the Falklands." In the negotiations, the British would brush aside the Argentine...