Word: settlements
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...sticking point has been the timing of a Soviet withdrawal. Moscow would like a three- or four-year deadline; Pakistan, which indirectly represents the interests of the rebels and the West, insists on no more than three or four months. "If the Soviets are as serious about seeking settlement as they have claimed," says U.S. State Department Spokesman Charles Redman, "then they should agree to a short timetable." In the meantime, the mujahedin no doubt plan to hold on to their rifles...
...impasse seemed to harden last month when Chinese negotiators warned that any date beyond the year 2000 "would not be acceptable." Lisbon, it seems, would have liked to hold on a little longer, perhaps until 2007, in order to celebrate 450 years of continuous Portuguese settlement in Macao. Still, reports surfaced last week in Lisbon that Portuguese officials are now tilting toward a return date of 1999, just two years after China assumes sovereignty over the neighboring British colony of Hong Kong...
Both brothers go under the knife and never emerge. Life is unfair, and fiction can be even worse. But what transpires in a novel need not be irreversible. So Henry may survive instead and go to Israel, where he joins a settlement on the West Bank and tries to find, or lose, himself in Jewish history. Nathan may come out of the operating room a new man, get married and move to England with his lovely and reassuringly pregnant wife. Other variations surface. Perhaps Nathan alone dies, and Henry, going through his late brother's effects, comes upon the manuscript...
That meeting could conceivably provide Saddam with another opportunity to seek a negotiated settlement for a war that the Iraqi President started in 1980 and has long since come to regret. But given Khomeini's capacity for wreaking vengeance upon his bitterest enemy, it may be that peacemaking is something he will reserve for the Ayatullah's eventual successor...
Should the contras be defeated in battle or expelled from Honduras, or both, Reagan's strategists see the bleakest of choices. Some warn that the U.S. might have to consider an American invasion of Nicaragua in the year ahead. The alternative would be an unsatisfactory political settlement with the Sandinistas. Some strategists sound as if they are not quite sure which would be worse...