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Leading lawmakers agreed with Secretary of State James Baker's argument that immediate action on the loan guarantees would anger Israel's Arab neighbors and endanger the October Middle East peace conference. Defying the Administration's request for a 120-day delay, however, Jewish lobbying groups and some of their allies on Capitol Hill vowed to push for quick congressional approval...
...rare political setback for Israel, top congressional leaders announced last week that they would delay action on an "urgent" request that Washington guarantee $10 billion in loans from Western banks to provide housing and services for the 1 million Soviet emigres who are expected to resettle in the Jewish state. This would be in addition to the $3 billion in U.S. economic and military aid already extended this year...
...European integration a relatively simple matter, at least in concept: the rich democracies of the West were eligible for / membership in this new club, the European Community; the poor dictatorships to the east were not. But now the Community's neighbors -- newly liberated, thoroughly European and desperately needy -- will request, and deserve, some kind of special association...
...precisely what the defense team, headed by Noriega's flamboyant lead counsel, Frank Rubino, has been saying all along. Rubino, one of Miami's savviest drug-case lawyers, claims the charges were manufactured because of Noriega's refusal to commit Panamanian soldiers to an invasion of Nicaragua at the request of the U.S. "Just a drug case, huh? Do you believe in the tooth fairy too?" says Rubino. "Like it or not, General Noriega has been an asset of the CIA, the National Security Agency and other government agencies for 20 some years...
...buried on the grounds of his presidential library near Ventura, Calif., environmentalists objected that it would cause pollution. No, not of the toxic waste variety; the fuming was not that personal. It was alleged that additional tourists would cause the pollution. Local officials disagreed and approved the Reagans' request. The sites-in-waiting will be ready by the time the library is dedicated in November...