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...Ruhollah Khomeini, which is believed to be providing Islamic Jihad with material and spiritual assistance, that the U.S. will hold Iran responsible for the fate of the Beirut hostages. Three months ago, when Islamic Jihad threatened to kill one of the Americans it was holding, Secretary of State George Shultz told Iran that it would suffer military consequences if any of the captives in Lebanon were harmed. Though it was by no means clear precisely what the Secretary had in mind, a senior State Department official added last week, "That is a permanent warning that Iran should take seriously...
...long-distance dialogue took on added significance because of the scheduled meeting in Vienna this week between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Shultz said that the issues raised in Reagan's speech--arms reduction, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and "confidence-building" measures such as better communications between the U.S. and Soviet military chiefs--would serve as his agenda for the conference. The two officials are also expected to discuss the possibility of a Reagan- Gorbachev summit this fall. Said Shultz: "When the Soviet Union is ready for such discussions, they'll take place...
...that are currently performed at the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to the Air Force, the first phase of construction (a subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC to begin taking charge of satellite missions. By the 1990s ground control for military shuttles would shift from Houston to CSOC. To add to all this activity orbiting around CSOC, the Pentagon has selected Colorado Springs...
...Central America than the atmosphere on Capitol Hill. The idea of an embargo against Nicaragua had come up for presidential consideration six or seven times over the past few years. Most recently, beginning last January, it was raised by some Senate Republicans and Democrats. Secretary of State George Shultz had been cool to such a step on the grounds that it would not bring enough pressure for change in Nicaragua. Reagan has long maintained that embargoes are ineffective (see box): his Administration called off Jimmy Carter's 1981 grain-sales ban against the Soviet Union and rejects economic sanctions against...
...conference involving the 90 nations belonging to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will be called; Mitterrand agreed that France would participate in planning for one, but laid down a string of conditions that France's partners would find difficult to meet. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz stated U.S. eagerness to talk trade liberalization with any groups of nations, or even individual countries, that are willing to deal if a GATT conference could not be convened. But such piecemeal negotiations would lack the impact of a worldwide conference and would risk shredding the multilateral trading system...