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...territory they now hold. The contras still hope to negotiate their demands face to face with the Sandinistas rather than through an intermediary. Yet as of last week that scenario looked unlikely. When a Sandinista group ran into Contra Leader Calero at a Washington reception, they refused to shake his outstretched hand, then walked out of the room even before the hors d'oeuvres were served...
...year sentence. The Navy expected him finally to admit to the embassy spying. Instead, Lonetree's interrogation, which included polygraph tests, has convinced top-ranking officials that he has been telling the truth in denying that he let Soviets into the embassy. Said one investigator: "We can't shake his story...
Some observers are suggesting that the Administration needs a staff shake- up. The financial community especially misses Paul Volcker, who resigned last June as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. But most feel that personnel changes would simply generate more uncertainty. They cite Jimmy Carter's mass Cabinet firing as proof that housecleaning usually does not work. "What we need now is stability," says Cheney...
Bringing Syria around was not easy. The longtime feud between Assad and Saddam Hussein poisoned the first day's summit proceedings. The two men, who are rivals for leadership of the region's socialist Baath movement, refused to shake hands, exchange words or even look at each other. But after hours of delicate mediation by other Arab leaders, the atmosphere thawed. At one point, when the Syrian and Iraqi Foreign Ministers were deadlocked over a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the gulf war, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri went to Assad's suite to discuss the problem...
...Bork mold. "The difference is Bork is a conceptualist," says Scott. "He has a theory, and the issue is how to fit the case into the theory. Doug comes at things case by case." With Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, Scott says, "everyone will get a fair shake...