Word: waldheim
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Bani-Sadr met with U.N. Secretary Kurt Waldheim's personal envoy, Olof Palme, who expressed U.N. concern over the consequences of continued warfare. Palme will also visit the war zone today, the Iranian news agency said yesterday...
...several weeks there had been rumors that a hostage deal was imminent, and its broad outlines?Khomeini's four conditions?were well known. Another American inducement for Iran to free the hostages emerged during indirect negotiations conducted through Algeria, Switzerland, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and, TIME has learned, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. The battle-weary Iranian military, which relies on American equipment purchased under the Shah, desperately needs spare parts that the U.S. has refused to deliver because of the hostage crisis. The Administration has said that once the American hostages are free, Iran can have about...
...were "incomparable in history," thundered Khomeini, and there could be no compromise until the Iraqi leader "repents and says 'I have become a Muslim.' " Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi, meanwhile, spelled out his country's tough position in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The war had begun, he asserted, when Iran had shelled Iraqi border posts on Sept...
Initial attempts to end the war failed. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim convened the Security Council in an informal session on Tuesday, but all its members could agree on was to express "deep concern" and appeal to the combatants "to desist from all armed activity." Said a U.S. official: "The Security Council is the logical place to sort this out, but neither regime has a history of paying much attention to the U.N." Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, on good terms with both Saddam and Khomeini, offered his services to help end the war and visited both Baghdad...
...unlawful detention" was called meaningless by Tehran. Syrian Diplomat Adib Daoudy, a member of the short-lived U.N. commission that had been formed to investigate the former Shah's reign, traveled to Tehran to lobby for a revival of that initiative on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...