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Carter appears to be flinging about foreign policy ideas with abandon. At his first news conference, he ticked off points for strategic arms talks with Russia. He made personal contact with Soviet dissidents. During the great phone-in he reiterated his intention to try to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba. Last week Carter was at it again...
Arafat, who is chairman of the council's 14-man executive committee, was planning to try to convince his deeply divided followers that it is necessary to 1) participate in a Geneva Conference, 2) come to terms with Jordan's King Hussein, and 3) moderate, if not abandon the P.L.O.'s avowed aim of establishing a "secular democratic" state in all of Israel rather than merely on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...conspiracy launched by the U.S. aerospace industry. Said one Transportation Ministry official: "It is obvious that builders who have 90% of the [aviation] market would be hostile to anything that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters on the embassy's windows in case of violence...
...allies (all invisible, of course), asking him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination against his own handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Taft has strayed from the "progressive" Rooseveltian principles he once propounded, stoking Teddy's competitive fires for one last, glorious battle. But the decision to abandon the comforts of private life and re-enter the "arena" does not come easily for Roosevelt, who resorts to a chronological review of his life's highlights that serves the purpose of the play far more than the needs of his deliberations...
...whole has been not to set up complete and independent operations in individual Third World countries but to engage whole populations in mass production of only parts of those operations, leaving these countries in quasi-colonial dependence on multi-national business networks. It is unlikely that these companies will abandon these long-standing business techniques long enough to grasp Young's subtle argument about inevitable social trends and long-term benefits. And thus nationalist attempts to forge independent paths of development remain preferable, even if more difficult...