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George Shultz's close association with the Arabs could prove to be an asset to America's peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, provided his attitude is not anti-Israel. One doesn't have to choose sides, does...
...superior economic position because of its oil reserves, natural resources and skilled people. In other countries under such circumstances of economic difficulty there are changes of government or coups d'état. Mexico is proving the solidness of its political system. This is a very important asset-more important than oil for solving the crisis...
...haven" concept was pioneered in 1980 by the Sixth Street People's Park in the South of Market section of San Francisco, but Wino Park, as it is locally known, is hardly a community asset. Skid Row Park is-or at least promises to be. Graffiti on a wall and sprawling drunks are never a pleasant sight. But despite them, youngsters in Skid Row Park use the basketball court, and smaller children play in the sandbox. Most of the neighborhood-illegal Mexican immigrants, destitute transients, the elderly and other community residents-seem to take equal pride in the place...
Some Reagan aides are hoping that Donovan will step aside to spare the Administration any possible embarrassment. But Donovan has other ideas. "I have no plans tc resign," he said last week. "I think I'm a political asset...
...that there is widespread American hostility, or at least indifference, to the 1975 Helsinki accords [which, among other things, recognized Soviet domination over Eastern Europe]. That is a grave mistake, at least from two points of view. Including the U.S. and Canada in talks among European nations is an asset of enormous value. And in my opinion there is no other way gradually to relax the opposing European blocs and to involve individual Eastern European states in a direct and autonomous dialogue with the West...