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Taken aback by mounting outrage among the Arabs, Moscow has tried to limit political damage by shifting attention from Jewish emigration in general to the narrower issue of the settlement of Soviet Jews in the occupied West Bank. In Moscow First Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli Vorontsov told Israel's consular representative, "We oppose any use of citizens leaving the Soviet Union to push Palestinians off land belonging to them." Israel's actions, he said, "are likely to cause serious harm to peace in the Middle East." Another Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennadi Tarasov, flew to Tunis to reiterate those views...
...National Movement accepted a call from their Baltic counterparts to open talks on their two years of violent clashes. Emerging from the first session, both groups agreed to seek the release of all hostages by March 1 and to establish permanent relations between the two groups. No speedy peace settlement is expected, if only because the Azerbaijanis refused to discuss the future of Nagorno-Karabakh, the center of the dispute. Even so, the multifront meeting illustrates a dramatic shift of power from Moscow into the hands of local nationalists...
...Clearly," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, who was a junior diplomat in South Africa in the mid-1960s, "there has not been a time in my association with this country that the prospects for a settlement along just lines have been as favorable." Yet Pretoria is notorious for its habit of taking two steps backward for every step forward. De Klerk is urging against unrealistic hopes. But if he fails to fulfill at least some of the expectations, he will risk a powerful backlash that could wreck any prospect for progress in the near future...
...government's cause for hesitation, Mandela has none. Newspapers last week published the text of a document he had delivered to the government prior to his tea with Botha last July. In it he urged both the A.N.C. and the government to "meet urgently to negotiate an effective political settlement." But he also made it clear exactly where he stood. "White South Africa," he wrote, "must accept the plain fact that the A.N.C. will not suspend, to say nothing of abandoning, the armed struggle until the government agrees to negotiate" with recognized black leaders. In addition, wrote Mandela, white South...
...Miami television station went further, reporting that Zell and Lehtinen owned a house together but kept it in her name to shelter it from the divorce settlement. Zell signed the house over to him after the divorce was final. Lehtinen later married a fellow state legislator (now a Republican Congresswoman), Ileana Ros. However, the Justice Department has declared that there are "no problems" in the way of Lehtinen's confirmation...