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During last spring's Falkland Islands war, the Security Council condemned Argentina's invasion of Britain's remote South Atlantic dependencies, but Secretary-General Pérez de Cuellar failed in his efforts to avert bloodshed. Nor did the General Assembly dare to condemn the Soviet Union by name when it called for an end to Moscow's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...
...party's candidate for Senate, Howard S. Katz' '59, has chosen a different tack, emphasizing his belief that the United States must return to the gold standard in order to avert economic disaster. Katz was a financial analyst in New York in 1971 when then-President Richard M. Nixon nevered all conceptions between the value of currency and precious metal...
...Israel is to avoid trauma at home, it must also avert a debilitating guerrilla war abroad. Three months after the "Peace for Galilee" venture began, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is still in Lebanon. After the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel two weeks ago, the IDF marched into West Beirut to "maintain order." There was logic to this move. The Lebanese army was in no shape to prevent anarchy, and the multinational peacekeeping force had already left Lebanon. But by taking control of West Beirut, the IDF implicitly shouldered responsibility for the area and hence, to some degree...
...could avert an energy crisis, Yergin concedes--provided there is stability in the Mideast, accelerated development of alternate energy technology (i.e., synthetic fuels, nuclear, and solar), and substantial domestic conservation. However, because such prospects currently are more dream than impending reality, Yergin finds the problem too important to wait out with fingers crossed...
...different Arab world could have helped avert the disaster in Lebanon: it could have found and imposed a solution before the disaster occurred. Now one does not know. Now we have the problem of Beirut. This is the first time an Arab capital is beleaguered, with Palestinians and Lebanese inside...