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The World - News from March 21, 1985

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The State Department said it is recalling more than a dozen U.S. ambassadors from the Mideast and South Asia for consultations on recent efforts to promote Arab-Israeli peace talks and other issues. The talks are “not keyed to the recent events involving the peace process nor to the recent events in Lebanon,” said deputy spokesman Edward P. Djerejian. “It is truly a gathering of the clan, a periodic, routine gathering of the clan.” Nevertheless, the consultations coincide with a new round of diplomatic activity in the Middle East.

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