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...gulf states know that only the U.S. has the power to deter major acts of aggression. But the U.S. is also the chief backer of Israel, and as such, it is the object of as much resentment as reliance. The gulf rulers are afraid that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's determination to annex the West Bank is at least as likely to plunge the region into chaos as are the combined threats of Arab radicalism, Islamic fundamentalism and Soviet adventurism. In that respect, they see the U.S. as part of their problem rather than part of the solution...
...Administrative Management Agency. Two weeks ago Nakasone publicly committed his faction of the party to support Suzuki's reelection. Japanese observers speculate that Nakasone knew in advance that Suzuki was resigning and announced his support mainly to help win the blessing of Suzuki's major backer, former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...freeze and the latest Kennedy Campaign are only the most recent political causes taken up by this thin high strung backer of idealistic causes. Besides working on John Kennedy's campaign Townsend was part of George McGovern's aborted presidential bid in 1972 and was environmental affairs coordinator for her uncle...
...Connecticut law is a marked contrast to May's congressional veto of a Federal Trade Commission rule that would have required used car dealers to list known major defects on cars they sell. Says Ernest Abate, the speaker of the Connecticut house of representatives and a backer of the bill: "I wanted the legislature to be more protective of consumer interests at a time when the Federal Government was moving away from regulation...
...America. His plays, criticism and topical articles appear regularly, and he recently wrote about the World Cup soccer matches for Barcelona's La Vanguardia. Once a supporter of Castro's Cuba, Vargas Llosa now campaigns against totalitarian regimes of the left and the right. He is a backer of Poland's Solidarity movement and a former president of the P.E.N. club, the international writers' organization that monitors the restriction of free expression. This is the stuff that puts writers on the Nobel Prize track...