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...Fact. All three principals, however, would probably agree on one key fact: the Sinai talks were indeed closer to a make-or-break point than ever before. Both Egypt and Israel were anxious to reach an accord, although even small details in dispute could stall any agreement. But with two weeks remaining before the expiration of the latest mandate for United Nations peacekeeping troops in Sinai, there was still time for additional "clarification"-or for more hands to be played in what one Israeli diplomat called "a giant poker game with stupendous stakes...
...doubt [that] it is possible to achieve another interim agreement with Syria because geography and topography do not allow the kind of maneuverability we have in the Sinai. However, if efforts at an interim accord with Syria fail, it should not affect the behavior of Egypt. Cairo should be bound regardless of what happens between Israel and Syria. If an interim agreement with Syria is not reached, it should not prompt the U.S. to begin any new reassessment of the Middle East situation...
...promise, as Archibald MacLeish put it, a promise to the colonists, to their descendants and to the world at large. The promise was contained in the Declaration of Independence: that people could govern themselves; that they could live in both freedom and equality; and that they would act in accord with reason-reason being a divine attribute, God's light...
...Minnesota Twins. Blackmun's elevation to the court from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was prompted by Burger's endorsement, and in Blackmun's first term the two differed on only 10% of the cases. They have never again been so much in accord, but a key split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices found major sections of Burger's version sadly wanting, and Byron White and Potter Stewart prepared...
...negotiators at Geneva are under pressure to break the impasse in order to have a SALT II agreement ready for signature when Brezhnev visits Washington later this year. A new treaty will supersede the 1972 SALT I accord, which temporarily froze the total number of strategic missiles but gave the Soviets an advantage in the absolute number of missiles. That agreement was made, despite strong Pentagon opposition, to offset the commanding MIRV lead the U.S. then enjoyed. SALT II will, among other things, limit the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to one anti-ballistic missile site each, instead of the two ABMs...