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...students involved in the discussion say it was an extremely open one, with everyone putting in his or her two bits for group consideration. Finally, each of the men withdrew of their own accord, and Hubbard offered to teach them the same material through independent studies. In effect, the group resolved the issue by settling for a 'separate but equal' policy in academics...
...demanding an enforcement of the so-called Cairo agreement, a 1969 deal that was supposed to control the movement of Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. The P.L.O. has ignored the agreement from the beginning by carrying out operations against Israel from Lebanon as it saw fit. To obey the Cairo accord now, Arafat realized, would be to destroy the last unrestricted political base left to the Palestinians in the Middle East. The P.L.O. chief refused to withdraw from the mountains and sent urgent pleas for support to other Arab countries, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...
...which is celebrating the occasion with special television programs, endless newspaper articles and the publication of a book. After all, the Russians were the original sponsors of Helsinki, and their dominance of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, a fact for more than a generation, was legitimized by the accord. This kind of quasi-juridical sanction had long been a major goal of Kremlin foreign policy...
That reflects what many regard as the Helsinki accord's main value: as a yardstick for measuring East-West relations, and thus part of the process of refining them. The accord's clearest failing has been its inability to bring East and West any closer to reducing or limiting their levels of armaments. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, for example, have been almost completely deadlocked since President Gerald Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev met at Vladivostock in November 1974. There also has been little progress in the three-year-old Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR...
Moscow may be tempted to make some concessions soon, in order to show progress in arms limitation in time for next June's Belgrade conference, at which the first two years' experience of the Helsinki accord is to be assessed. Unless there is progress on SALT or MBFR and an improvement in Soviet treatment of human-rights cases, it is likely, as a West German official predicts, that the "tone of the Belgrade meeting is not going to be very upbeat...