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Last weekend's display of good will was more than just a matter of pomp and pandas. Reagan met for serious talks with each of China's current leaders: de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping, Premier Zhao Ziyang, Party Leader Hu Yaobang and President Li Xiannian. The Chinese mentioned Taiwan again and again, but in measured tones; ultimatums were not delivered. Deng, while forswearing any explicit alliance with Washington, made it clear over the course of his 2½ hours with Reagan on Saturday that he shares the American President's fundamental distrust of the Soviets. Several trade...
Marcinkus, who also heads the Vatican bank, remains under a cloud because of the bank's dealings with scandal-ridden Banco Ambrosiano. John Paul also made a major change in removing himself as direct ruler of the Vatican City government in order to stress his role as Catholicism's spiritual leader. The new administrator: Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, who is second only to the Pope in the Vatican hierarchy...
That single act, Touré would often say over the next quarter-century, was the proudest moment of his life. It also represented a high point for both Guinea and Touré, a son of a poor farmer who became the West African nation's first and only ruler. When Touré died last week at 62 in a Cleveland hospital, to which he had been rushed for treatment of a worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France...
...both might and glory from the struggle against Iraq. Military leaders--many of whom have had their close colleagues executed under the current regime and all of whom have had to fight a war perpetuated and selfishly used by Khomeini--have good reason to feel antagonistic towards the religious ruler. When the war ends, many of these leaders will have the opportunity to reenter the domestic political scene; public attention will once again focus on domestic issues...
...DEATH OF THE Soviet Union's most mysterious and short-lived ruler Yuri V. Andropov was announced last week, leaving his successes a myriad of domestic and foreign policy problems, not the least of which is the current chill in superpower relations. While it is hard to mourn a man for all intents and purposes dead for several months--who became a frightening parody of the fabled Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984. Andropov's death serves as a depressing reminder of how little progress the U.S. and the Soviet Union have made in this decade...