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Black turnout was high (60%) and overwhelmingly (96%) for Ferre. But helpful to the incumbent's victory was winning 27% of the Hispanic vote, almost all of which is Cuban. The independence shown by those voters was encouraging. It suggested that a truce was at least possible in Miami's racially charged politics. Said Miami Attorney Neal Sonnett: "The time is particularly right for some healing...
...Reagan that he agreed with "every sentence, every word, every phrase" of his National Assembly speech. Reagan's visit to the demilitarized zone took him closer than any U.S. President to the North Korean lines. He helicoptered to the Liberty Bell camp, where U.N. forces guarding the historic truce village of Panmunjom are based. At a forward observation post, he had a binocular view of North Korean military positions. Returning to Washington Sunday, Reagan could reflect on a trip that seemed successful precisely because of its lack of high drama. Quiet cementing of relationships with allies lacks the theatricality...
...Lebanese Prime Minister who lives in Tripoli, asked Arafat to quit the area and "leave with all his brothers." The P.L.O. leader flatly rejected the appeal amid reports that the rebels had made their final demand: surrender now and leave Lebanon, or face an all-out assault when the truce expires on Sunday. By week's end shells and rockets again pounded into Baddawi and Tripoli, though the attack was considerably less fierce than in previous days...
...fitful one. The scheduled "national reconciliation" talks between the Lebanese government and factional leaders, set to begin last Thursday at the Beirut airport, were canceled, then tentatively rescheduled for this week in Geneva - a considerably more secure site, as Sunday's bombings grimly confirmed. The four-week-old truce in Lebanon seemed to be ever more fragile, as each army and armed gang used the respite to rebuild spent arsenals. Last week the Administration was becoming convinced that Syria has decided its best bet for preserving its leverage over the country is to wait for Marine casualties to mount...
...leaders. The Sandinistas claim no direct responsibility, and in fact there is evidence that the government has moved to quiet the turbas. Still, the net result has been to leave most of the country's remaining opposition spokesmen cowed, or at least in a state of uneasy truce with the government and its overwhelming monopoly force...