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...illness and disheartened by the death of his wife, resigned as Prime Minister of Israel and was succeeded by his Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Other leaders consolidated their power. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl led their conservative parties to huge electoral victories, Thatcher's Tories triumphing by the biggest British landslide since 1945. Pope John Paul II made moving pilgrimages to war-torn Central America and to Poland, where crowds of a million turned out daily to receive the native-born Pontiffs blessings...
...responded favorably as well, characterizing the Mubarak-Arafat meeting as "an encouraging development." That angered the government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, which insisted that the encounter in Cairo was a breach of the spirit of Camp David. In a frosty, hour-long meeting with Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Meir Rosenne, protested that Camp David enjoined the Egyptians from encouraging terrorism and thus from dealing with the likes of Arafat. Eagleburger replied that the U.S. saw the rapprochement as an opportunity...
...Islamic fundamentalism is an earthquake. It is becoming more radical, making alliances with those who support Communist ideology." He and other Arab moderates felt the situation had been exacerbated, however, by the growing U.S. military involvement in the region and the U.S. decision, announced during Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's visit to Washington last month, to adopt a new policy of "strategic cooperation" with Israel so as to check the growing strength of Soviet-armed Syria...
Israeli officials have told TIME that the new Reagan-Shamir agreement included a "secret unwritten understanding" under which the U.S. would concentrate on protecting the oil-rich Arab gulf states against Iran, while Israel would help the U.S. handle the Syrian threat in Lebanon. According to the Israeli sources, Shamir also indicated that he would try to discourage Jewish groups in the U.S. from opposing American efforts to bolster moderate Arab governments...
...gulf and Israel is not," said a senior Defense Department official. "It's equally clear that the Israelis have a stronger, more direct military confrontation with the Syrians than we do." But it would be "overdrawn," he said, to talk about "spheres of influence." Another result of the Shamir visit was the decision to convert military-aid programs to Israel and Egypt from loans to grants. Over the next fiscal year, the U.S. will give $1.4 billion to Israel and $1.1 billion to Egypt...