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...Administration's longstanding policy of "constructive engagement," in which open criticism of South Africa is deliberately suppressed in favor of behind-the-scenes encouragement of improvements in race relations. U.S. officials, however, quickly denied that anything had changed. The President's remarks, said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg, were "fully consistent with what we have been saying, and will continue to say, both publicly and privately to the South African government. We are not changing the policy...
...Nobody is going to run me out of this town," Tambs vowed. "I'm staying to continue the fight together with the Colombian government to get rid of the dope business." Nonetheless, State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg announced that the U.S. would temporarily be "reducing our official profile in Colombia." At least a dozen of the embassy's 187 U.S. employees left the country last week with their families. Americans are not the only ones at risk. Says Tambs: "I have information that all the Colombian Cabinet ministers and the President himself have received death threats ever since...
...different kind is coming from the U.S. The Peres government clearly expects the Reagan Administration to help Israel out of its economic crisis. But at the same time, the Administration is determined to maintain a neutral role in the southern Lebanon negotiations unless, as State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg puts it, all parties to the dispute "adopt practical, problem-solving approaches." In that vein, this week's Lebanese-Israeli military talks, to be held at U.N. headquarters in the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura, must be considered a small step forward. At the meeting the Israelis are expected...
...dock appeared to have been lowered at sea and damaged by waves. Finally, British experts who examined an unexploded mine reported that it was an "ultrasophisticated" device made by the Soviet Union, one of Libya's primary arms suppliers. All in all, declared U.S. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg in supporting Egypt's position last week, there was "persuasive circumstantial evidence" linking Libya to the explosions...
...Continued unsupported speculation on a possible natural explanation of the origin of causalities and deaths from the prohibited use of chemical weapons only serves to divert serious attention from the real issues on chemical warfare," State Department spokesman Alan Romberg told reporters last week...