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...enable it to avoid a similar disaster. Unlike Iran, the population is culturally homogeneous, and shares more closely its own brand of Islamic religion. Moreover, the royal family is closely allied with the religious leaders and popular as well with the rest of the people. Nor is the kingdom beset by a teeming urban center with an underclass ripe for revolt. Observes one U.S. expert: "You really don't have the same economic strains in the modernization process. The government has kept inflation to around 8% a year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even...
...from 20% to 25% in one week. More important, Thatcher's Conservative Party last week won a plurality of about 40% in nationwide local elections, the largest percentage of any party since age of any party since World War II. The nation was still rallying behind a leader beset by foreign foes...
...Yankees have been a different story because of one man--you guessed it--George Steinbrenner. George has played havoc with an essentially magnificent team, firing manager Bob Lemon after a 5-7 start and ranting and raving to no end about the club's poor performance. Beset by dissension, too many player moves, and a severe power shortage (they are tied for last in the league in homeruns, and sorely miss the California-gone Reggie) the Yanks have stunk up New York with an 11-16 start and are fast losing crowds to the resurgent Mets. All in all, their...
...severity of the current recession was written in red across scores of first-quarter corporate earnings reports last week. Beset by sagging sales and oppressive interest rates, companies in a broad array of industries, from autos and airlines to steel and even oil, posted sharp profit declines or outright losses...
...leaders in the Kremlin, and in which friends (actual and potential) insist on pursuing their own explosive quarrels rather than subordinating them to any common anti-Soviet cause. The President, who came to office lacking experience in foreign affairs, has given such matters only intermittent personal attention. Haig, beset with bureaucratic battles, has tended to focus his formidable energy on one foreign problem at a time. In the words of a U.S. diplomat at an embassy in the Middle East, speaking of his own region but voicing a comment that has broader application: "We do not even have a framework...