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...worst incidents in the border area since Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces from Lebanon in June 1985 and established a narrow security zone in southern Lebanon. Two Syrian-backed groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the allied Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, claimed joint responsibility for the "seaborne suicide operation." Twelve hours later, Israel countered with a bombing raid that blew up an ammunition dump and several buildings at Ein el Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp near the port city of Sidon on the Lebanese coast...
When Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated last week as Austria's sixth President since 1945, the protests were few and symbolic. In the sunlit Great Hall of the Parliament building, some two dozen Socialist Members of Parliament wore black neckties. Many Socialists believe that Waldheim, who served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps during World War II, is unfit to be President...
France loves a good summer scandal, and this year it has an intriguing one. When conservative Minister for Cooperation and Development Michel Aurillac came into office, he discovered some irregularities left behind by Christian Nucci, his Socialist predecessor and creator of Carrefour du Developpement, an organization designed to publicize Third World concerns. The state auditor has been unable to account for $1.4 million in the Carrefour budget. In addition, more than $6 million was spent by Nucci's agency on a two-day conference in Burundi...
...Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...
...Socialist victory was largely a tribute to the charismatic Gonzalez, who has become one of the brightest stars in Europe's political firmament. Though voters no longer squeal like groupies when the graying-at-the-temples Prime Minister takes a podium, he retains magnetic appeal. "There is less emotionalism than before," says a senior foreign ministry official. "But he can still convince the man in the street." Gonzalez did that last March, when he persuaded a skeptical electorate to vote to keep Spain in NATO...