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...when the spirit of forgiveness is urged as a basis for public policy. John Paul's gesture proclaimed a larger exemplary message to the world. Is forgiveness a purely personal transaction, or can it be applied in a political way to reconcile enemies? What if Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat forgave each other and came to some reconciliation, perhaps in the way Shamir's predecessor, Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat did in 1977 when Sadat made his dramatic journey to Jerusalem? If John Paul could forgive...
...illness and disheartened by the death of his wife, resigned as Prime Minister of Israel and was succeeded by his Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Other leaders consolidated their power. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl led their conservative parties to huge electoral victories, Thatcher's Tories triumphing by the biggest British landslide since 1945. Pope John Paul II made moving pilgrimages to war-torn Central America and to Poland, where crowds of a million turned out daily to receive the native-born Pontiffs blessings...
...responded favorably as well, characterizing the Mubarak-Arafat meeting as "an encouraging development." That angered the government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, which insisted that the encounter in Cairo was a breach of the spirit of Camp David. In a frosty, hour-long meeting with Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Meir Rosenne, protested that Camp David enjoined the Egyptians from encouraging terrorism and thus from dealing with the likes of Arafat. Eagleburger replied that the U.S. saw the rapprochement as an opportunity...
...Islamic fundamentalism is an earthquake. It is becoming more radical, making alliances with those who support Communist ideology." He and other Arab moderates felt the situation had been exacerbated, however, by the growing U.S. military involvement in the region and the U.S. decision, announced during Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's visit to Washington last month, to adopt a new policy of "strategic cooperation" with Israel so as to check the growing strength of Soviet-armed Syria...
...believe that Assad is in full command of his senses, the consensus is that it will be some time before the Syrian President can resume his usual 18-hour workdays. There are conflicting rumors about who is running the country. Sources ranging from P.L.O. officials to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir have told reporters that a five-man council was making decisions, but hard facts are an elusive commodity in Damascus. Among the men reported to be on the committee are Rifaat Assad, Hafez's younger brother and the tough-hearted head of internal security, Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam...