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...fact, support for Argentina's invasion of the Falklands has come from only a handful of Latin American countries. Chief among them are Peru, a traditional Argentine ally on the South American continent; Ecuador, which smarts from the loss of more than 70,000 sq. mi. of territory to Peru in various wars; Bolivia, which lost a Pacific coastline to Chile a century ago; and above all, democratic Venezuela, which claims about half of neighboring Guyana's territory. In an interview with TIME'S Caribbean bureau chief William McWhirter, Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins warned that...
...country's 2.2 million inhabitants are Palestinian) to overthrow King Hussein and create a Palestinian state less threatening to Israel. The Sharon plan also envisioned uniting the forces of Major Sa'ad Haddad, Israel's Lebanese surrogate who is encamped with his forces in a 600-sq.-mi. buffer zone along the Israeli border in southern Lebanon, with the Christian Phalangists in the north. The combined Christian forces, in Sharon's scheme, would take over the central government and restore what Sharon calls "a free Lebanon." This government would presumably get the Syrians to withdraw...
...breach in the hemisphere, Caracas sent a delegation to Western Europe to plead for an end to the European Community's economic sanctions against Argentina. The sudden surge of nationalism in Caracas raised fears in Guyana, meanwhile, that Venezuela might resort to military action to seize 58,000 sq. mi. of mineral-rich territory that have been the subject of dispute since the beginning of the century...
...capable of winning. The war, centered in the former Spanish Sahara to the south of Morocco, pits Hassan's armed forces against the guerrillas of the Polisario Front. The rebels, who are supported by Algeria and Libya, hope to create an independent state in the barren, 103,000-sq.-mi. territory...
...Loren was chauffeured by police in a white Alfa Romeo to Casa Circondariale, a pink-walled women's prison near her native Naples. Carrying a bouquet that could have concealed a good-size hacksaw, Sophia was cheered by fellow inmates as she was escorted to a 10-ft.-sq. cell. Skeptics attributed Loren's homecoming to her planned starring role in a film that starts shooting in Italy next month. But Sophia offered a more Mediterranean explanation: "I want to see my mother and friends." Besides, said she. "I need the Italian...