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...autonomy for the territory's 1 million inhabitants last year when it linked the proposed Cuban pullout from Angola to a South African withdrawal from Namibia. South Africa had not originally insisted on the Cuban withdrawal, but it subsequently fastened on the U.S. position as a delaying tactic. Last week Eagleburger fell back on the concept of "reciprocity" in the negotiations, a code word for a carefully timed agreement for the simultaneous withdrawal of South Africans from Namibia and Cubans from Angola. While U.N. diplomats involved in the Namibia negotiations down-played the importance of Eagleburger's statement...
...Some polls predict 27% or 28% in next week's count. Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, who forced the elections by bailing out of the last coalition government, had hoped to engineer major Socialist gains (perhaps 15% of the vote, compared with 9.8% in 1979), but the tactic backfired. Party strategists now say they will be relieved...
...reduce casualties, the Israelis could stage a unilateral withdrawal to more defensible positions in the south. Such a tactic would probably lead to the partition of Lebanon, with Israel occupying the south and the Syrians remaining embedded in parts of the north and east. The Begin government may eventually take that step, but for the moment it is fighting off all opposition efforts to bring about a partial withdrawal, arguing that this could only make the Syrians more intransigent. Says Defense Minister Moshe Arens: "If the Syrians reach the conclusion that Israel may withdraw unilaterally, then they will certainly...
September 1982--The six member organizations of the Third World Coalition vote to boycott the Chambers Greenberg class Support in the Coalition, however, is not unanimous. The boycott tactic, says Joseph A Garcia, president of La Alianza the Chicano students organization, "will hurt minority students. It's like cutting off our nose to spite our face...
...during the civil-rights movement and again in his work against the Vietnam War, by the extremes of the Left as well as Right, for his insistence on working peacefully for reform through democratic institutions. No revolutionary, he repeatedly with student activists not to take up violence as a tactic of protest. The more radical--including the SDS and the man who ended Lowenstein's life with five bullets on March 14, 1980, Dennis Sweeney--denounced him as a reactionary trying to stem the leftward surges of the American student community. But Lowenstein could not support anyone who wanted...