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...Shamir for "correctly refusing to offer any guarantees that would limit the settlement" of Soviet Jews "anywhere in Israel." Last month Cuomo derided President Bush's Middle East maneuvers, saying, "I don't believe you should be evenhanded between the people who share your values and have been your staunch allies -- always, without exception -- and people who have not." One can only hope that to further peace, a President Cuomo would mute such talk, but then again the Governor is famous for saying exactly what he means and acting accordingly...
...week's end the East German still had two options: North Korea offered temporary refuge, while permanent sanctuary was held out by Dzhokhar Dudayev, the President of the tiny, self-proclaimed Chechen republic (which broke away from Russia's Chechen-Ingush region). A staunch anticommunist, Dudayev said he offered his hospitality "to save the honor of both Gorbachev and Yeltsin...
Harvard also gave him unparalled preparation for Olympic competition. Not only has Athletic Director (and two-time Olympian) Bill Cleary been a staunch advocate of Crimson players going to the Olympics instead of the pros, but Harvard also plays a brand of hockey similar to that encountered in international competition...
...Germany are doing just that. President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week proposed the creation of an all-European army, starting with a small Franco-German brigade that is already in existence and eventually comprising troops from all the nine nations in the Western European Union. Staunch Atlanticists initially opposed the idea: British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd called it an unnecessary "duplication" of NATO. But others, including the U.S. -- which is not a member of the WEU and thus has the most influence to lose -- were more restrained. Some diplomats suggested that a Euroarmy could play a role...
...house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini as a potential delegate, could backtrack and assert that al- Husseini is now a West Banker. And al-Husseini could take his seat, staunch in his conviction that he still speaks for Jerusalemites...