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...first step toward bringing the U.S. into the arena was taken in February by Jordan's King Hussein, who wooed Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat into an ambiguous agreement to pursue peace with Israel. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is working to thaw the "cold peace" with Israel by exchanging emissaries with Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Mubarak later flew to Washington to make a personal plea to President Reagan for renewed U.S. involvement. Then, last week, the globe-trotting Egyptian leader joined King Hussein on a trip to Baghdad to enlist the support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Not since...
...Soviet Union prepared for the Geneva meeting, there were signs of a slight thaw in Sino-Soviet relations. Chinese officials announced that the two Communist superpowers had negotiated three pacts on trade and scientific cooperation and a long-term treaty strengthening economic ties. But the two countries continued to be separated by wide political and ideological differences...
...week earlier, the Polish leader's efforts to thaw relations with the West had suffered a serious setback. West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had postponed a visit to Warsaw, largely because Polish officials told him it would be inappropriate to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union who was abducted and killed in October. The Jaruzelski government has been hurt by revelations that at least four secret-police officers were involved in the murder. The "Jablonna V" International Meeting of Journalists provided a timely opportunity for Jaruzelski...
...land-based missiles. Declares one Administration arms-control advocate: "What is important is the details, the specifics of approach from January on. What is the U.S. ready, willing and able to put on the table?" A moderate colleague is also pessimistic. "Reagan wants to see it as a thaw," he says of the Geneva get-together, "but unless we can show them we are serious about the arms-control process, then this isn't the beginning of anything." In fact, the Reagan Administration is profoundly divided over how to handle arms talks, and has not yet fashioned anything like...
...been a classic thaw. Ever since British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proffered an olive branch to the Soviet Union over a year ago with the comment that "we have to live together on the same planet," relations between London and Moscow have steadily improved. According to some, this detente not only has helped spur the renewal of U.S.-Soviet arms talks but has also produced diplomatic rewards for Britain: on Dec. 15, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev will lead a delegation to Britain. This will be followed next year by a visit from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...