Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government adviser, one of the moving forces behind the 1972 international treaty that banned the development of biochemical weapons. Now, Meselson is garnering headlines as the principal challenger to the U.S. Government's position that the Soviet Union or its allies are using deadly chemical weapons in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan...
...bomb exploded as their truck rumbled along a highway in southern Lebanon. In downtown Beirut, Lebanese army soldiers battled Shi'ite Muslim militiamen after government police tried to evict Shi'ite squatters from an abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army is expected to guard the area when Israeli troops withdraw to more defensible positions, a move the Israelis are expected to make shortly...
...Israeli officials informed Shultz last week of their plans to pull back their troops to more defensible positions within Lebanon. Such a maneuver, however, could take some of the pressure off Damascus toward any move at all and invite renewed fighting between Christians and Druze in the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut. Worse yet, the redeployment could lead to a de facto partition of Lebanon between Israel and Syria, with a weakened Lebanese government in control only of Beirut...
...burst of wartime solidarity, the People's Republic of China once declared that its friendship with Viet Nam was as close as "lips and teeth." But after their common foe, the U.S., withdrew its troops from Southeast Asia in 1973, the toothy smiles between Peking and Hanoi gradually turned to frowns. Today, says a Chinese official, the relationship is one of "rifles to rifles and artillery to artillery." Nowhere is that hostility more evident than along the 800-mile border between the two countries. TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a group of Western journalists who made...
During a visit to Southeast Asia last week, Secretary of State George Shultz said that the U.S. felt it deserved "a responsible answer" rather than a brusque nyet. In a response to critics who have charged that the Reagan Administration was not negotiating sincerely in Geneva, Shultz added, "There are those who argue that in negotiations you make an offer, and if nothing is forthcoming, you offer something else. That is stupid, because you are negotiating with yourself. The name of the game is to negotiate with the other side...