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Prospects for negotiated solutions are poor. President Carter started conventional arms transfer talks with the Soviets in 1977. They were abandoned the follow ing year after the Soviets demanded, and the U.S. refused, to discuss weapons sales to the Persian Gulf region. The Reagan Administration has expressed a willingness to talk with the Soviets about new strategic arms limits and theater nuclear force reduction of missiles in Europe. But there is currently little expressed desire for conventional arms-sale restraint?either by the Reagan Administration, the Soviets, the other major producers or even Third World nations. The first step toward...
According to a directive written by National Security Adviser Richard Allen, "the U.S. views the transfer of conventional arms and other defense articles as an indispensable component of its foreign policy." Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance James Buckley admits that the Administration's arms policy "will include a larger number of sales to developing countries, which desperately need more effective means of defending themselves." Complains Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan's policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere...
...atmosphere of deliberate calm, Mubarak launched a purge, including the transfer of hundreds of army officers and civil servants of "fanatical religious tendencies" to less sensitive posts, and an investigation of the failure of military intelligence to detect the presence of the armed assassins who gunned down Sadat. He also authorized the "preventive" arrests of several hundred known civilian extremists of both the left and right and asked the People's Assembly for legislation imposing the death penalty on anyone found guilty of unlawful use of firearms...
...anniversary of the day on which the Arab nation regained its dignity." Egypt, Mubarak declared, would follow Sadat's course, "without any deviation, the course of peace." For the moment, Sadat's proud belief that he had established "a state of institutions" in Egypt that would permit a peaceful transfer of power, appeared to hold...
...homes, help find mortgages and new homes and, sometimes, assist spouses in finding work in their new locations. Says Gaylord Milbrandt, executive vice president of Runzheimer and Co., a Wisconsin-based relocation consultant: "Business has just been phenomenal." With 13 offices nationwide, Merrill Lynch Relocation Management helps transfer some 35,000 families of other companies yearly. It bills employers for brokers' commissions and real estate closing costs, plus its own fee of about $2,000 a sale...