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...provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last week charged that "the U.S. encouraged Israel's bloody adventure in order to save [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein, strengthen the hand of the reactionary regimes in the region, weaken progressive forces and indulge Israel's expansionist designs." He also charged Egypt and Saudi Arabia with being "pillars of U.S. expansionism...
Others stressed the long-range diplomatic and strategic risks engendered by the Israeli move. Said Richard Falk, a foreign policy analyst at Princeton University: "In the short term, the invasion appears to strengthen the position of Israel and create a generally favorable diplomatic situation for the U.S. But it also has as a side effect the greater isolation of both Israel and the U.S. on a global level, and that has important implications for the quality of U.S. leadership in the world...
...menu included shrimp cocktail and steak, and the dinner conversation rounded from nuclear disarmament to retraining public school teachers when top officials from Harvard and Cambridge gathered Thursday at the President's Quincy St. residence to break bread and strengthen relations between the city and the University...
...sources, Haig's first instructions were indeed to join the British veto. But when Haig returned from the opening dinner at Versailles, he received a call from Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel recommending that the decision be reconsidered in light of changes made in an attempt to strengthen the link between a cease-fire and an Argentine withdrawal. Haig concurred. He discussed the changes with British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and then telephoned instructions to Stoessel to tell Kirkpatrick to abstain from the vote. Finding that he was too late, Haig asked that Kirkpatrick issue her recantation. Later...
...seen in a new light: "in the context of a common determination to make Christ's voice heard above the noise generated by a selfish and self-indulgent [British and Western] culture." He believes that the friendship and Christian joy exemplified by John Paul's visit could strengthen the prospects of religious conversion in a nation like Britain, where an anemic 11% of the populace worships on Sunday...