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...plea bargain with federal officials for a prison term of four to five years in exchange for a halt to the probe. The Justice Department turned down the deal. Now U.S. officials believe Rich may be preparing to abandon the U.S. forever. The globetrotting trader, who once lived in Madrid, is believed to have sought Spanish citizenship. But Spain might provide only temporary refuge. Eventually Rich may have to decide whether to face U.S. authorities or to spend his life on the run. - By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/New York
Secretary of State Shultz will meet with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in Madrid next week, the State Department said Monday. A department spokesman would not way what the two will talk about but obviously there is a lot to discuss with the Soviets. The meeting will take place between September...
...ever put it so bluntly. In recent weeks the President had gone against his own instincts by signing a long term grain deal with Moscow, lifting a ban on the sale of caterpillar pipe-layer equipment, and agreeing to initial a treaty on security and human rights negotiated in Madrid...
...double-barreled U.S. strategy, defined privately by Reagan to aides as "Show our outrage, but keep talking," reached a climax late in the week in Madrid, at a meeting of foreign ministers of the 35 states that had participated in the three-year Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Working sessions of the conference ended on Tuesday with an agreement that does no more than schedule a series of future conferences and bind the signatories to pledges about human rights, like the right to form free trade unions, that hardly anyone thinks can be enforced. Still, it once seemed...
...series of face-to-face private meetings with other foreign ministers, Gromyko was told that the world is not buying this line. Shultz had gone to Madrid specifically to express American condemnation to Gromyko in person. Their session on Thursday was described by Shultz's aides as "stormy" and "heated." The Secretary is said to have raged to State Department officials over the transatlantic telephone after the meeting that Gromyko "lies even more in private than he does in public...