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None of which necessarily means that a conference will meet anytime soon. At least one of Assad's motives was to put the onus of blocking peace squarely upon Israel, should Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government balk at accepting the same terms. Shamir is alert to that danger, but he is far from avid for a peace conference...
...negligible and almost any professed faith is welcome, from Methodism to Zen. But about 30% of scouts are sponsored by church groups, and those partners would probably take a dim view if scouting suddenly made belief in God optional. On the issue of female membership, many young boys might balk at enrollment if scouting lost its exclusionary mystique, and the Girl Scouts would surely not welcome the competition...
...belated but effective intervention in Bangladesh by 12,000 U.S. soldiers suggests that a military-style operation might be the answer. In the Washington Post, columnist Jim Hoagland called on the U.S. to use its armed forces for other emergencies in the future. Yet developing countries often balk at U.S. intervention. On the other hand, a reserve multinational rapid-deployment force headed by Japan and with standby units in other nations might be more acceptable...
Mikhail Gorbachev is determined to meet with George Bush sometime this summer, but Washington will continue to balk until the Soviet leader makes a few more arms-control concessions. While Kremlin officials have repeatedly predicted a June rendezvous, their U.S. counterparts have bridled at the idea because of unresolved issues. Negotiators still haven't decided how to verify a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and U.S. arms experts complain that Moscow is undermining the agreement on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) by removing some military units from the treaty's jurisdiction. Even the location of a potential summit...
...very American to think that all history begins yesterday. Thinking so, we repeat old mistakes or balk at burdens that seem brand new. Bush could do a better job with the NWO. Americans have been tinkering with it for 200 years...