President Chaim Herzog of Israel visits Zaire and Liberia in the first visit to Africa by an Israeli President since the African nations severed diplomatic ties with the Jewish State after the Yom Kippur War.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl pays a five-day official visit to Israel, described as a success for both Germany and the Jewish State but yet overshadowed by Germany’s past and serious differences between Israel and the Bonn government over how to achieve peace in the Mideast.
France and Saudi Arabia conclude a $3 billion arms agreement providing for the sale of Frech-made highly sophisticated electronic equipment. While details of the agreement are kept secret, press reports say France will provide the desert kingdom with the latest French ground-to-air missiles, the Shahine.
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