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Since the rift between China and the Soviet Union began more than two decades ago, it has always been assumed that Moscow would mend fences with Peking before its East bloc allies did. But so far all attempts at rapprochement have foundered. The Chinese complain about the "three obstacles" of Soviet foreign policy: Moscow's support for the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, continuing Soviet involvement in Afghanistan and the massive troop buildup along the Chinese border. The Soviets, for their part, have been irked by the apparent warmth in U.S.-Chinese relations following the Reagan visit to Peking last...
...similar rift has long prevailed within the inner councils of the Reagan Administration. The Administration's supply-siders, led by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, have consistently urged the President to oppose income tax hikes. Another faction, known as the "pragmatists" and led by Budget Director David Stockman, has counseled Reagan to keep open all options, including a tax increase. The pragmatists fear that the strength of the economy may convince the President that the supply-siders are right. Says one Administration official: "The President is going to be aw fully tempted to believe this fairy tale about the deficit...
...announcement flashed over Jordanian television at 8 p.m. Two hours later, a special bulletin appeared on Egyptian television. In both countries, the news was greeted with mild applause and much surprise. After a five-year rift, Jordan was restoring full diplomatic ties with its neighbor to the west. One of the 17 Arab nations that have severed relations with Egypt since the late President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, Jordan now becomes the first country to rescind that gesture of disapproval. Although Egypt and Jordan have had a growing number of contacts over the past...
...South, two House races have highlighted the deepening rift between newly powerful black voters and the liberal Establishment of the Democratic Par ty. One is a rerun of a 1982 race between incumbent Republican Webb Franklin and Democrat Robert Clark, a State representative seeking to become Mississippi's first black Congressman since 1883. Many blacks complained bitterly two years ago that white Democrats failed to support Clark on racial grounds, and they seriously considered running an independent black in the state's all-white Senate race this year in retaliation. New boundaries have raised the proportion...
...party's leadership. During his trips abroad, for example, he contended that U.S. blacks share a special rapport with revolutionaries in the Third World since both have been victims of colonial-style repression. Some party leaders fear that such a view could lead to a fundamental rift over foreign policy along racial lines...