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...that the U.S. is blundering deeper into an open-ended military commitment to a losing cause. So far, the Administration has done little to back up its most important contention, namely that the real U.S. aim in El Salvador is not a military victory but the political and economic framework needed for democracy to flourish in a strife-torn and bitterly impoverished region...
...Americans took full advantage of their diplomatic windfall. After the chaotic session had ended, Chief U.S. Delegate Max Kampelman drove home the Administration view that the 1975 Helsinki accords, which are the basis for the 16-month-old Madrid conference and which are viewed in Western Europe as a framework for guaranteeing human rights in East bloc countries, have been effectively gutted by Soviet aggression. Said Kampelman: "It would appear as if the Soviet Union is acting to undermine both the letter and spirit of Helsinki." Haig contended that continuing the talks at this point would be to "simply condone...
...settle. Without sustained tension or a cohesive enough plot, Fran's love and courage, however deeply feld, however hardly come by, remain abstractions. Like the exquisitely wrought texture of cultural nostalgia and theatrical illusion that form the basis of Alfred's style, they ache, desperately, for a more visible framework to gild...
...theater forces if the Soviets would also cut back. Thus, when one symbol becomes more useful than another, we casually fold our umbrella in a little and somehow security isn't affected. You don't need to know much about logistical "choke points" to challenge the Reagan-Brezhnev fantasy framework of arms competition...
...professed Israeli eagerness to reach a settlement, the two-day session at Cairo's elegant old Mena House hotel brought no tangible progress. Along with U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis, the participants dutifully avowed their "dedication to the Camp David framework" in their closing statement. Still, Egypt and Israel remained as far apart as ever on the issue that has bedeviled the talks from the beginning: the size, scope and powers of the Palestinian body that is to govern the occupied territories once they become autonomous. The Israelis conceive of that body...