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SINCE the autumn of 1974, Americans have been treated to spate of articles advocating US military intervention in the Middle East. They have appeared in such influential Journals as Harper's The New Leader, US News and World Report, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and above all Commentary, the monthly organ of the American Jewish Committee...
...Syrian campaign to undercut Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's position as the leading spokesman of the Arab world. Assad outmaneuvered Sadat last summer by refusing to negotiate a new disengagement agreement with Israel over the Golan Heights after Sadat had already signed the Sinai accords. Last autumn Assad balked at renewing the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Golan Heights unless the Palestine Liberation Organization was invited to a major Security Council debate on the Middle East...
...fact, asked both men if he could consult them but so far neither he nor his staff has done so. (In London, George Ball confirmed that he had made "a genuine offer to advise and counsel Carter on foreign policy" after the two had a long discussion last autumn. Ball said the offer still stands...
...nights I'd sit back, hands behind my head, and just listen. Other nights I'd push the men to keep looking at some contradiction they'd stumbled upon, holding both sides in tension until something changed. Still there were barriers between us, and the strongest to surface that autumn in Boston was racism...
Teng's public statements are also direct and unabashed. At one banquet in Peking last autumn, Teng?a notably anti-Soviet hard-liner?criticized the Russians so harshly that Moscow's Ambassador to China stalked out without bothering to finish dessert. Teng was less irascible but equally blunt in warning the U.S. against the dangers of détente when President Ford visited China last December. "Rhetoric about détente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war," he declared. Teng evidently relishes his new power. Shortly after his rehabilitation, visitors to China said he seemed...