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Political tensions could destroy the truce among OPEC nations. Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained for years. The Saudis have been financing Iraqi attacks against Iran, which has itself fired upon Saudi oil tankers in the Persian Gulf region...
...Sandinista regime was "laying the groundwork for a one-party state." His Nicaraguan counterpart, Nora Astorga in turn accused Walters of "repeating the same distortions and lies" in order to disguise an illegal U.S. policy of aggression. Walters countered, "Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to destroy the democratic labor movement? Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to crush Nicaragua's private sector?" Within moments, Ortega's appeal was forgotten, and the winds of war began to stir once more...
While suggesting that he was seeking a middle course on South Africa, Reagan cast the problem in terms of polar alternatives. "We must stay and work," he said, "not cut and run." If Congress imposes sanctions, Reagan said, "it would destroy America's flexibility, discard our diplomatic leverage and deepen the crisis...
...Reagan Administration's open-ended commitment to use the military against cocaine, the addictive white powder that is now the fastest-growing segment of the approximately $125 billion illicit U.S. drug market. American soldiers will remain in Bolivia for at least two months, transporting the Leopards on search-and-destroy missions into the countryside. U.S. officials are said to be reviewing similar requests for military assistance from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia -- countries that, along with Bolivia, produce almost all the cocaine sold in the U.S. and Western Europe. Moreover, the day after U.S. forces landed in Bolivia, President Reagan...
...they are coming to the conclusion that something is drastically wrong. There is a growing realization that this country has to be shared." The dilemma South Africa's whites face is that if they do not soon find a way of bringing such sharing about, violence and bloodshed may destroy what they are trying to hold...