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Being asked to a cocktail party to honor Kurt Waldheim...
Overhearing someone tell about being asked to a cocktail party to honor Kurt Waldheim...
...Namibia settlement, called for an immediate South African withdrawal. The U.S., for its part, issued a statement saying that the new South African action "must be understood in its full context" of the struggle against SWAPO and emphasized the "urgent" need for a Namibia solution. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim cut short a vacation in his native Austria and hastily returned to New York to prepare for a Security Council meeting, as demanded by Angola, on the incursion. By week's end, heated exchanges had taken place in the Council, and one U.S. Administration official expressed concern that "lacerating...
AFGHANISTAN. With Syria and Marxist South Yemen dissenting, the conference passed a Saudi-backed resolution committing Tunisia, Guinea, Iran and Pakistan to assist U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in seeking a settlement. It stopped short of condemning the 1979 Soviet invasion, but called for the withdrawal of the 80,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq reported "intimations of flexibility" from both the Soviets and their puppet in Kabul, Babrak Karmal. But the militant Afghan rebels, in spite of their close relations with the Saudis, adamantly refused to sit down with representatives of Karmal...
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...