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Eight weeks ago, the threats against American personnel were still coming, and the fledgling Lebanese government had yet to prove itself able to guarantee order. But the State Department decided anyway that the newly relocated embassy was somehow safe enough, and withdrew the 80-man Marine contingent armed with the heavy weapons that could have stopped the car-terrorist...
...pact was in doubt right up to the final minute. Peres, who had until Sept. 16 to form a government, faced growing opposition within his own ranks. Seven Knesset allies, including the tiny leftist party, Mapam, refused to link themselves with their longtime ideological foes in Likud and withdrew from the Labor Alignment. Shamir had his share of headaches as well. At a party meeting to approve the list of Likud ministers, Sharon warned against yielding to Labor on certain issues, including the pace of Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. Then a squabble developed over whether the National...
...that was only part of the bad news that has been jolting F.C.A. The company, which is the parent of American Savings & Loan Association, the largest U.S. thrift institution, may be facing liquidity problems. Last month institutional investors, worried by the company's lower earnings and regulatory problems, withdrew $1.4 billion in deposits, forcing F.C.A. to borrow emergency funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank in San Francisco. Coming just three weeks after the $4.5 billion federal bailout of Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank, the troubles at F.C.A. were particularly unsettling to financial circles. After Knapp...
...events will not stand still while Israel sorts out the consequences of its election. The Lebanese government withdrew its guards at the Israeli liaison office in a Beirut suburb last week, as a means of forcing Jerusalem to close the building and bring home the 30 officials who worked there. Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami had been pressing Israel for months to shut the office, but Shamir had refused to abandon what amounted to the last shred of the May 17, 1983, withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor Begin...
...before Cruz withdrew from the presidential race, two of the largest contra factions concluded a unity pact in Panama City, joining their political and military organizations on the northern and southern Nicaraguan fronts under a single directorate. The document, signed by representatives of the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.) and the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE), called for the establishment of a pluralistic democracy in Nicaragua and urged "all lovers of liberty to unite so that tyranny can be eradicated and Soviet expansion in the hemisphere blocked." Contra leaders said they would support Cruz...