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...Baath Party Congress, probably because they were not Assad men. Publicly, however, they were charged with aiding Iraq, which is governed by a rival wing of the Baath movement. Although relations between Baghdad and Damascus have improved, the two neighbors have frequently been at the brink of war - sometimes over ideology, but sometimes over rights to the waters of the Euphrates River. Last fall both governments rushed troops to the border after Iraq complained that Syria's vast new Tabqa dam on the Euphrates, built with Soviet funds and assistance, was depriving Iraqi farmers downstream of necessary water...
...more than 4,000. (Lebanon's population is only 3 million. It is as though the U.S. had suffered 250,000 deaths in a civil war.) "We cannot stand any more fighting," said Lebanon's almost despairing Moslem Premier, Rashid Karami. "The country is on the brink of collapse...
...grasp at all of American history, which accounts for the overwhelmingly present-oriented tone of Decadence. Now, Hougan is saying, is the time of real crisis in America; if the world at this moment seems on the verge of unprecedented fundamental change, it's because it is on the brink of such a change. If crazy political, spiritual and religious sects are proliferating, it's a natural response to unprecedented times like these. Perhaps Hougan doesn't know that crazy sects have always been present in America, or that there have been many fundamental crises and changes; certainly...
...nationwide publicity blitz orchestrated by New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey turned the country at least part way around on the issue. New Yorkers hammered away at the theme that if the city fell into default, others would soon accompany it. Yonkers, N.Y., teetered on the brink of default last week, only to be rescued at the last moment by a $25 million infusion of bank loans and state aid. Massachusetts, too, seemed headed for default until it managed to balance its $3 billion budget by slashing social services and raising taxes...
...that the Governor General would take orders from him. Nonetheless, Sir John, who was an active member of the Labor Party until 1956, decided to move against the Prime Minister. The reason: Whitlam appeared unable to end a month-old political stalemate that had brought the country to the brink of financial paralysis (TIME, Nov. 10). The Senate, narrowly controlled by a conservative coalition of Eraser's Liberals and the National Country Party, had invoked a never-before-used right and refused to pass the Prime Minister's budget...