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...other hand, the third aspect depends totally on the PLO itself. In spite of all the efforts to bring about a modification in the PLO's position, the result was never successful. Many times it seemed as if they were about to adopt a more moderate policy, but at the very last moment they turned back, and stuck to the professed policy of their most extreme elements...
...retreat into Cold War logic, which views indigenous national struggles as indicative of "communist influence," only leads to further alienation of peoples, whose rights are trampled in our headlong attempts at "containment"--a process which eventually creates the instability against which we sought initially to defend. Instead, we must adopt as a general principle of our policy that equal opportunities to social economic, and political development--not military aid and alliances--are the most basic guarantees of stability in the Middle East, and indirectly of our own national interests in that region...
Politicians should consider the impact of telling lies and making promises and the public should adopt what George Santayana called a "seasoned and incredulous mind," Bok argued...
Carnesale argued that any wholesale approach to reducing the numbers of nuclear weapons--"trying to do much about the consequences fo war"--is hopeless, and that the U.S. should adopt a piecemeal approach, taking individual weapons and trying to negotiate specific limitations or cutback treaties with the Soviet Union...
Until he suffered a stroke in 1972, Durante had as much vitality off-stage as he did on. Throughout his life, he would stay up late with show business cronies, joking around. In a profession where rivalries tend to be fierce, he had no known enemies. Nor did he adopt Hollywood vices, except for an occasional visit to the track. A devout Catholic, Durante lived in a modest eight-room house and worked tirelessly to raise money for the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer Research...