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What happens to the spirit of Camp David now that the deadline has lapsed? Washington is looking to Jerusalem for the answer. Said Carter late last week: "Now it is up to the Israelis to either accept [the treaty] or reject it." Jerusalem anticipates direct pressure from Washington. Israeli officials speculate that the Administration might delay arms shipments and refuse to discuss extra financial aid. (Israel is due to receive $2.2 billion in U.S. military and economic aid in the current fiscal year...
...meetings with the region's leaders and opinion makers, McGovern mostly listened. But when Rhodesia's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, asked McGovern what he would do to solve Rhodesia's problems, McGovern had a succinct answer: "Resign." Yet at a dinner party in Johannesburg, he startled his South African hosts by indicating that Smith's government in Rhodesia, if it continues to move toward an "all parties" conference of local leaders and carries through with a promised one-man, one-vote national election next spring with "credible" international observers, could expect the U.S. Senate to repeal the economic embargo imposed...
...classic Christian answer to this quandary is the free will theory formulated by St. Augustine. As the Rev. Stephen Duffy of New Orleans' Loyola University summarized it last week: "God freely decided to limit his own freedom and put no limit on ours. We certainly are capable of making a botch of it." If God had programmed all human beings to be good, he explains, there might be no evil, but there would be no virtue either. God chose to let man choose...
...have-nots are worried about where free-agentry is leading baseball. Says Yankees President Al Rosen: "We're on a tragic course. Salaries have got out of hand. The system has got to change." Who's to blame? Angels Executive Vice President Buzzie Bavasi has a frank answer: "We give it to them. We can't complain too much. The players are a lot smarter than we've been...