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Although army bases have been fortified and new roads built in recent weeks, the Shamir government would like to withdraw from southern Lebanon. What keeps the Israelis there is the absence of a central authority able to guarantee that P.L.O. fighters will...
...twelve years in the Senate, Sam Nunn, the earnest Georgia Democrat, has earned a reputation for levelheaded expertise in military issues. Thus his blunt proposal last week that the U.S. withdraw one-third of its troops from Western Europe unless other NATO allies increase their own defense spending disturbed politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Nunn's intent was to strengthen NATO, not rupture it. Said he: "This is not a petition for divorce. This is a petition for the alliance to carry out its vows." But the measure highlighted a growing belief in Washington that, as Nunn...
Mitterrand's working session with Chernenko was stiff and formal: the leaders each read from prepared drafts, but there was no give-and-take. Only just before the banquet did the two withdraw for an hourlong private discussion. Mitterrand later described Chernenko, who appeared frail but not perceptibly ill, as an informed, nimble and animated interlocutor, with more autonomy than Mitterrand had previously thought...
...West African territory that his nation has ruled for decades in defiance of the United Nations. In Bonn and London, Botha agreed to remove his troops from the area on condition that five West European nations take over at their own expense and, at the same time, that Cuba withdraw its forces from neighboring Angola. In Zurich, Botha guaranteed "safe passage" for Sam Nujoma, head of the nationalist South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), to discuss independence in the Namibian capital of Windhoek...
...Gottlieb, 34, is the scourge of preppiedom. First he designed a belly-up alligator that poked fun at the celebrated reptile on Izod Lacoste shirts. Its name: the Croc O' Shirt. Unamused, Izod Lacoste sued, and Gottlieb's Mad Dog Productions (1983 sales: $300,000) agreed to withdraw its parody pullovers. Mad Dog is again on the run. The satire this time is Ralph Lauren's polo-player insignia. Gottlieb's Horse Shirt shows the rider being dragged behind the horse. Lauren sued, and Gottlieb has again promised to halt sales. Said he last week...