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This included outlining a proposal to include French and British missiles in intermediate-range nuclear negotiations and to halt the deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Europe...
...recession, moreover, has done little to halt the flow of many foreign goods into the gulf. Saudi Arabia imported $10.46 billion worth of such products as industrial machinery and farm goods during the second quarter of 1983, a 5% increase over the first quarter. In the United Arab Emirates, imports were 2% higher in the first half of this year than in the same period a year ago. Result: after years of accumulating huge surpluses, some energy-producing states are now sinking into the red. Saudi Arabia is expected to spend some $26 billion more than it takes in from...
Hardened senseless acts of violence make it difficult for some to reconstruct the horrifying shock of Kennedy's assassination. But people remember reacting with a collective, convulsed cry of mourning: meetings were cancelled, courts adjourned and, where no formal recesses were called, work nevertheless ground to a halt...
Casualty figures were sketchy, but at least several hundred guerrillas and civilians were killed and hundreds more wounded. The mayor and other local leaders pleaded with Arafat to halt the fighting, but they stopped short of publicly asking the P.L.O. chieftain to leave the city. The Gulf Cooperation Council, made up of Saudi Arabia and five other Persian Gulf states, dispatched a delegation to Damascus. A four-day cease-fire was worked out, promptly broke down, then was patched together again. Rashid Karami, a former Lebanese Prime Minister who lives in Tripoli, asked Arafat to quit the area and "leave...
...firm French stand contrasted sharply with that of Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S., who last May called for a halt to the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons. "Does a country whose life, freedom and identity is menaced have the right to parry this radical hreat with an effective, even nuclear, counterthreat?" the French bishops asked. Yes, they responded, but they also warned hat a nation accepting the risk of nuclear deterrence must "follow a constructive p011cy in favor of peace...