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...last week, however, a summer-long effort by the federal and provincial governments to reach accord on constitutional change had collapsed in acrimonious failure. At the end of a six-day summit around a horseshoe table in Ottawa-capped by a last-ditch private bargaining session in Trudeau's drawing room-the Prime Minister and the premiers reported that they had been unable to agree on a single point of Trudeau's agenda...
...came, I saw, I was conquered," Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, declared expansively after a rousing welcome last week in the East Room of the White House. But in his six-day visit to the U.S., it was Mugabe who did the conquering. Only a year ago, he was a hunted rebel leader, directing his guerrillas against the white-backed government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. But he swept through the United Nations, New York City and Washington, D.C., with the aplomb of an experienced diplomat who had spent a lifetime on the international political stage...
...provocative bill that affirmed the united city of Jerusalem as the country's capital. The gesture was symbolic, since the western portion of the city has served as Israel's capital for 30 years, and the Israelis have occupied the rest of the city since the Six-Day War of 1967. But the bill's effect, as with so many of the dubious actions that have attended the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was to strengthen Israel's enemies and to confound its allies. Lamented Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, a disappointed opponent of the bill...
Perhaps Begin's most provocative gesture was to reaffirm his previously stated intention to move the Prime Minister's office to East Jerusalem, which the Israelis annexed after occupying it during the Six-Day War of 1967. No nation in the world has recognized Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem; the U.S. has long held that the future status of the Holy City must be negotiated as part of an overall Middle East peace treaty...
...liberals from both parties, the Senate clearly was ready to approve the plan proposed by President Carter last January, just after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. The House had passed the necessary funding by a vote of 219 to 180. After two days of what turned out to be a six-day filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd called for a vote to invoke cloture, limiting further debate to 100 hours. Byrd was surprised that it passed immediately...