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Estimates of the total number of dead, injured and homeless varied wildly. United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said that 1.5 million people-half the population of the country-had been affected by the fighting. According to Lebanese sources, about 10,000 were killed and 16,000 wounded. The State Department's Agency for International Development said that about 600,000 people from Beirut and southern Lebanon had been "directly affected." But officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is distributing medical supplies in Lebanon, called these estimates "much exaggerated...
...reaching Lebanon, the U.S. and other Western countries prepared to send aid to the civilian victims of the war. In Washington, a House panel voted $20 million in emergency help for Lebanon. France sent the ship Argens with 35 tons of supplies. U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar announced that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency would supply $1.5 million for food, medicine, shelter and other necessities, and the U.N. World Food Program would deliver food worth $11.5 million...
...Canada to the North Sea, Pickens had been gunning for Cities Service since 1979. His interest was sparked by the company's ownership of upwards of 10.6 million undeveloped acres of U.S. land containing an estimated 287 million bbl. of proven oil reserves as well as 2.7 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...Cuéllar picked up where the U.S. had left off, with an agreement in principle from both sides to accept the idea of a cease-fire and a phased withdrawal. Like Haig, however, the Secretary-General ran into a major obstacle: the Argentines' insistence that any agreement must "inexorably" lead to their sovereignty over the islands. When Britain continued to balk at this, Argentina appeared to back off by calling sovereignty an ultimate "objective" rather than a precondition to talks. At the same time, however, the Argentines hardened their position on mutual withdrawal. Meanwhile, the Thatcher government, stung...
...negotiations reached a crucial turning point on May 14, when Parsons was summoned back to London for urgent consultations with Thatcher's War Cabinet. The ambassador returned to New York early last week bearing Britain's "final" bargaining position, which Pérez de Cuéllar passed on directly to Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Ros. Late the following evening the Argentines came to the U.N. tower with Galtieri's response to the British ultimatum. Near midnight, Sir Anthony made his now familiar trek to the 38th-floor suite, where Pérez de Cuéllar...