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This is of grave concern for Pacific basin countries. The effect of Soviet air and naval expansion [could] be aimed at an isolation of China and, depending on the degree, isolation...
Conclude's South Korea's Hahm: "It's going to take the fine hand of the U.S. to give this motley grouping a coherence. Regional security for the entire Pacific basin is a U.S. responsibility. If the U.S. does not accept that responsibility, the Soviets will fill the vacuum. Then the fence sitting will begin, with everyone waiting to see which will blow-a Chinese wind or a Soviet wind." Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the wind everyone is worried about is blowing down on East Asia from Siberia...
...room" in the main cell-block will contain a seatless toilet, a basin, bed and two shelves. Prisoners may decorate their rooms with bedspreads, curtains, wooden toilet covers, bedside tables and plants. Each floor has a recreation room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence...
...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
...makers have failed to give adequate consideration to the potential impact of Mexico's policy towards the conflict in El Salvador. Yet Mexico's continuing economic growth, its oil wealth and its internal political stability have sharply increased its prestige, capabilities and willingness to influence developments in the Caribbean basin and Central America...