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...Iraq's eight-year conflict with Iran. In fact, Saddam's bellicosity ("O God almighty, be witness that we have warned them") was barely noted. The big news from the Middle East was the possibility that Syria's Hafez Assad might finally be serious about negotiating with Israel's Yitzhak Shamir...
Facing the facts in the Middle East is often a game of saving face. So how to get around this conundrum: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insists that he will not sit at a negotiating table that includes a Palestinian representative from East Jerusalem; Faisal al-Husseini, a leading Palestinian activist and Jerusalemite, insists that any Palestinian delegation must include a Jerusalem resident. The face-saving route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini...
None of which necessarily means that a conference will meet anytime soon. At least one of Assad's motives was to put the onus of blocking peace squarely upon Israel, should Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government balk at accepting the same terms. Shamir is alert to that danger, but he is far from avid for a peace conference...
Nearly 230,000 Jews are now ensconced in the occupied territories. If Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir gets his way, tens of thousands more will soon follow. As the U.S. struggles to nurse a postwar peace process into life, Shamir has countered by launching what is one of the largest Jewish settlement drives since Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Ostensibly, the building boom is needed to house a growing settler population. But it is really meant to strengthen the Jewish state's claim to the territories...
...region of Slovakia, depend on it. The federal government has pledged to cut output to 25% of 1988 levels by 1993, but already Slovak politicians have slowed down that timetable to stave off mass unemployment. Last month federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa took a scolding from his Israeli counterpart, Yitzhak Shamir, over a still pending agreement to sell 100 T-72 tanks to Syria in a deal worth $200 million. "Czechoslovakia is not interested in producing tanks," countered Calfa. "But we don't want to break the economy of a region...