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...bridge vote will come up for reconsideration at next Monday's council meeting, because a motion to suspend reconsideration, which is otherwise required on any council vote, failed...
...lead with his Labor Day speech. Before he went on TV, the White House had announced that immediate U.S. steps would be mainly symbolic: suspension of negotiations with the Soviets for a new consular agreement and expanded scientific and cultural exchanges, and an appeal to other nations to suspend air service to and from the U.S.S.R. for 60 days. There would be no revocation of the just concluded grain-sales agreement with Moscow, and no delay in arms-control talks. Reagan told his speechwriters he wanted no broad-scale attack on the Soviet Union but rather a speech tightly focused...
...Pinochet last month in a Cabinet shakeup. Jarpa met twice with Democratic Alliance leaders to discuss such demands as changing the regime's ruinously monetarist economic policies and allowing elections well in advance of 1989, when Pinochet's term is scheduled to end. Jarpa agreed to suspend a 1973 emergency state law that imposed a nationwide curfew and to begin inviting over 1,000 leading political figures to return from exile. Two of the exiles flew into Santiago last week and were greeted by more than 5,000 supporters chanting anti-Pinochet slogans, an event that only months...
...agreement contains several new provisions. Any U.S. attempt to use the bases for activities in the Middle East or Persian Gulf will require the explicit approval of the Greek government. In the event of a national emergency, Greece will have the right to suspend all activities on the bases unilaterally. Reflecting Greece's longstanding mistrust of neighboring Turkey, the U.S. agreed to help preserve the balance of forces in the Aegean...
From the outset, the Soviets made it clear that Kohl was not entitled to the same kind of welcome given his Social Democratic predecessors. For example, Soviet protocol normally dictates that the press suspend all critical references to countries whose leaders are guests in Moscow. But on the day Kohl arrived, the major Soviet television news broadcast included a report on antinuclear demonstrations in Mainz, the Chancellor's home territory. Then there was the mystery surrounding Andropov's failure to receive Kohl on the day of his arrival. Three hours before he was due to leave for Moscow...