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...Saturday, as Nicholson was being buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin met for more than an hour with Secretary George Shultz at the State Department in what Dobrynin called an effort "to put this episode behind us." The two agreed that the commander in chief of the Soviet forces in East Germany and the commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe will meet to decide how such violent incidents can be avoided in the future. Said a senior U.S. official: "We think the Soviet response is something we can build...
...system of apartheid is totally repugnant to me," said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington, responding to questions about the Uitenhage tragedy. "The pattern of violence has underlined how evil and unacceptable that system is." Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Chester Crocker, who was in Cape Town for talks with South African officials, declared that "the cycle of violence must come to an end now." But President Reagan, speaking at his news conference on the day of the killings, suggested that "rioting" marchers were at least partly to blame for the clash and pointed out that "some...
...Reagan Doctrine proclaims overt and unashamed American support for anti- Communist revolution. The grounds are justice, necessity and democratic tradition. Justice, said the President in his Feb. 16 radio address, because these revolutionaries are "fighting for an end to tyranny." Necessity, said Secretary of State George Shultz in a subsequent address in San Francisco, because if these "freedom fighters" are defeated, their countries will be irrevocably lost behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet domination. And democratic tradition, said the President, because to support "our brothers" in revolution is to continue--"in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Angola . . . (and) Nicaragua"--200 years...
...past 13 months, U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East has essentially been on hold. The tragedies in Lebanon had resulted in a vague policy known as disengagement, a virtual do-nothing stance. When the U.S.-mediated accord between Israel and Lebanon crumbled in March 1984, Secretary of State George Shultz remarked bitterly that Middle East governments reluctant to accept American peace overtures "must bear the responsibility to find alternative formulas...
While the three Arab leaders met in Baghdad, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri was in Washington urging Shultz to embrace the new Arab initiative. He got little more than vague promises of "support and cooperation" from Shultz, who indicated he might meet with Masri and Egypt's foreign minister sometime in the next two months. Warned Masri: "This may be the last chance. The future will only be good for the fanatics and the extremists...