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...last press conference, Carter declared that "the most important foreign affairs subject Congress will consider the rest of this session" is the lifting of the 42-month-old embargo on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey. Ironically, Carter as a presidential candidate had vigorously backed...
...last week's Cabinet session, the Premier, who has twice been hospitalized for a heart condition, conceded that "a month ago, I was very ill and could hardly function." He was as feisty as ever, though, at a stormy, seven-hour Knesset debate on foreign policy. The Premier's Likud-dominated coalition handily turned back a no-confidence motion introduced by the Labor Party by a vote of 70 to 35. But Israel's internal debate over its response to the Egyptian peace initiative continued. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy interviewed Foreign Minister...
Obasanjo's roundly applauded speech was the high point of the session. Beyond their own bright promise of stronger African leadership, his statesmanlike words contrasted with the gaffes that too often in the past have soiled the image African leaders sought to project. There were, alas, still a few of those gaucheries at the 15th summit. Items...
...postal strike in the morning? The answer came shortly after 4 a.m. Washington, D.C., time, when Emmet Andrews, head of the American Postal Workers Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three-year contract...
Japan. In the picture-taking session of summiteers, Japan's Fukuda alone was unsmiling-and with good reason. In private sessions, he had come under withering criticism for his country's gigantic trade surplus ($17 billion last year), which helps to undermine the world's monetary stability. Through a big public works program, Fukuda is trying to create greater buying power at home and thus expand imports. Japan has succeeded in holding the volume of its exports to last year's levels; but the value of those exports has shot up 20% this year...