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...rapprochement between Peking and East European governments as part of their own campaign for closer relations with the Chinese. Last month Jaruzelski stopped off in Moscow for talks with Soviet , officials before and after his journey to China. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is said to want to re-establish high-level political ties between Moscow and Peking. That desire so far has been frustrated, although cordial talks by various middle-ranking officials have been going on between the two Communist nations since...
...news of the high-level hoax stirred a furor in Washington last week, the Reagan Administration denied that it had orchestrated a campaign to mislead the public. "We didn't tell any lies," said the President, although he admitted "there are memos back and forth . . . I can't deny that." A quick report from the Senate Intelligence Committee seemed to support Reagan's disavowal. Whether or not some Government officials leaked false information, explained a member of the committee's staff, there was no deliberate policy behind...
Testing, for drugs or AIDS, becomes yet another strategy of intimidation in the power dynamic between employers and employees. There is no call for alcohol testing at business lunches or meetings between high-level diplomats. The logic of screening makes the body a site for a conflict of interests...
...suggestion of high-level Mexican involvement apparently surfaced during the investigation of the February 1985 torture-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Last week a Mexican law-enforcement official, Mario Martinez- Herrera, was indicted by a San Diego grand jury looking into the Camarena case. A suspected eyewitness to the murder, Martinez was also, according to the Union, carrying papers detailing a "network of payoffs" that allegedly implicated the Mexican officials. Martinez's lawyer dismissed the report as speculation...
...problems, Iran under the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seems increasingly confident and active. Earlier this month Tehran persuaded its partners in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit oil production and thus push up the price. Last week it received two high-level envoys from Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most influential power broker in the Arab world, who called the alliance between the two countries "invulnerable." Now Iran is negotiating with France for the return of $1 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen by Paris after the Ayatullah came to power...