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...experience of America in Iran might prove illuminating to Reagan policy planners. Iran was a backward nation, the leader of which had a voracious appetite for arms and a noted aversion to civil rights for his people. While the Shah greedily collected all the gadgetry of death that we would sell him, he left Iran's social needs unmet and crushed all those who urged him to do otherwise. Those gadgets meant little indeed when the people of Iran rose up to defeat the Shah; we would be better off urging the Saudi princes to devote their resources to eliminating...
...campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is not at is beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold: one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backward, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy. "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord!" The unbroken tension of weeks--of a year and a half for some, has ended. Bicker is over at last, for them...
...choreographer could plot. All movement is as spontaneous as the music, which soon rides into Going to the Mardis Gras and, at last, into the tune that seems to be everybody's great expectation: When the Saints Go Marching In. A young woman in frayed jeans curves backward, in an affront to gravity, all the while clapping her hands, rending the air with throaty singing- "Oh, when the saints. . ." At times such carryings-on have been known to get out of hand...
Only in France has the current seemed to run the other way. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, after years of bending over backward to avoid offending the Soviets, has belatedly realized that his foreign policy was out of tune with public opinion. The French voter has become increasingly wary of Moscow's motives in the wake of Afghanistan and the outbreak of unrest in Poland. Consequently, the election-minded President has executed a swift about-face. Since France is not a member of NATO's military command, it has no direct role...
...Reagan Cabinet is now almost evenly split on the auto issue between protectionists and free traders. Trade Representative William Brock said last week that he still supported unrestricted trade, but added, "Sometimes you have to take a step or two backward before you can move forward." Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, had another view about that step. He told the Senate Banking Committee that any import limitations would be a "backward step at a time when economic policy is being geared to reducing the degree of Government intervention in the marketplace." Reagan Cabinet members now favoring...