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...added that the initial Soviet withdrawal should be "front-end loaded," meaning that large numbers of the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan should pull out quickly "so that once it starts, there's a certain inevitability to it." Shultz added a new demand, insisting that all Soviet military aid to Afghanistan cease after the pullout. On a conciliatory note, he reiterated that the U.S. would similarly cut off arms supplies for the mujahedin, Afghanistan's rebels. The U.S., he said, might taper off its arms shipments to the rebels as the Soviets retreated...
...quotas and bans on aliens are hardly a desirable solution. On Capitol Hill some progress has been made toward the more positive goal of encouraging gifted Americans. Measures are under way in Congress that would increase graduate-fellowship aid from $115 million to $150 million next year, provide $95 million for upgrading university research facilities by 1990, and raise federal support for math and science education in elementary schools from $80 million to $150 million...
...Harvard Commencement 40 years ago that Secretary of State George Marshall announced the beginning of the program, which sent massive aid toward the reconstruction of post-war Western Europe. Harvard has never forgotten its historical tie to this program...
Mubarak is in a tight spot. He does not wish to anger Washington, which gives Cairo $2.1 billion in economic and military aid a year and which he plans to visit next month. But neither does he want to jeopardize his rapprochement with the Arab world, which ostracized Egypt after it made a separate peace with Israel. Mubarak's quiet diplomacy paid off at the Amman summit, when a resolution was passed that allowed Arab countries to restore diplomatic ties with Egypt; within a week nine countries did so. "Egyptians simply cannot stand aside and watch the violence against Palestinians...
Meanwhile, Congress grudgingly bowed to the White House last week and approved $8.1 million in humanitarian aid for the rebels. (The package: $4.6 million for food, clothing and medical supplies, along with $3.5 million to deliver the goods.) The stopgap allocation will help sustain the contras until Reagan can ask for fresh military assistance at the end of January. That will be shortly after Central American leaders are scheduled to meet in Costa Rica to determine whether the Sandinistas and the contras have tried in good faith to achieve a cease-fire. If the Sandinistas seem to be stalling, Congress...