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...other countries, a government would automatically have called out its army to put down the kind of civil unrest that beset Lebanon in the past fortnight. But Lebanon's 16,000-man armed forces, like the nation itself, are a special case. Since the high command is predominantly Christian, much of the Moslem population would have resented the army's presence-and the soldiers might have split along religious lines. So the government prudently allowed the troops to remain in barracks...
Slender Majority. Whitlam's firing of Cairns compounds the difficulties of the Labor Party, beset by economic problems and falling popularity. Only two weeks ago, it lost a by-election for a seat in Tasmania that it had held for 21 years. As a result, Whitlam's slender majority in the lower house has been reduced to three. Many political observers are predicting the financial scandal may well be the "extraordinary circumstances" that opposition Liberal and Country parties Leader Malcolm Fraser said he would need to take the country to the polls later this year...
Indeed, as the U.N.-sponsored two-week-long conference neared its final days, the problems that beset women seemed all but irresolvable in the face of national conflicts. Soviet and Chinese delegates berated each other for sabotaging the war on imperialism. Other speakers denounced colonialism, apartheid and multinational corporations. Finally, Elizabeth Reid, Australia's outspoken chief delegate, objected: "The conference is treating women as irrelevant. We have not talked about women as such...
...retirement, could look forward to spending their last years in peace and security, respected and cared for by their families and friends. No longer. For an increasing number of Americans, the years after 65 are a time of growing uncertainty and isolation as, cut off from family, beset by illness and impoverished by inflation, they struggle not to enjoy the rest that they have earned but simply to survive...
Compounding the political isolation that has beset Israel in recent months has been longstanding if less severe economic isolation; the Jewish state belongs to no trade bloc in which it can sell its products under low tariffs, a fact that aggravated a $3.5 billion trade deficit that last year forced a 43% devaluation of the Israeli pound. But in Brussels last week Israel achieved a significant breakout from its loneliness. The nine-nation European Economic Community signed an agreement that greatly reduces tariff barriers on sales of Israeli goods to the Common Market and assures Israel there will...