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Countering charges that new Nationalist employment policies intend to create a manageable African middle class as a buffer to working-class unrest, she says, "You can't very well create a middle class and not give them any rights, can you? And you can't go around and say [to the Blacks], 'Look you can have rights...
...challenge and acts of subservience, plus carefully pursued systems of personal rights. In external affairs, packs keep to their own turf. When they hunt near the border of another pack's range, they howl out early warning systems so there will be no inadvertent confrontation. And they leave buffer zones between territories, not merely to keep the peace, but to provide safety areas where deer are allowed to breed...
...Israelis, who have been actively backing the Christian militias in Beirut with arms and training since the start of the civil war, apparently aim to keep the country divided and neutralized. Through a surrogate force headed by a maverick Christian officer, Saad Haddad, the Israelis also effectively control a buffer zone just inside Lebanon's southern border...
...averaging four miles wide, along their northern border. Presiding over this L-shaped strip is Saad Haddad, 42, a renegade Lebanese army major and a Christian. He grandiosely calls it "Free Lebanon, "but "Haddadland, " as it is irreverently known to some journalists, is actually supported by Israel as a buffer against infiltration by P.L.O, terrorists. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman entered Haddadlandfrom the Israeli border town ofMetulla. His report...
...Iran's political and economic situation continues to deteriorate, many Western observers fear that leftists may ultimately inherit the revolution and seize control of the government. That may happen, but for the time being, two major leftist groups act as a buffer between the clerical regime and Marxist radicals. The Tudeh (Communist) Party apes the current Moscow line, which proclaims unqualified support for the Ayatullah. The Islamic People's Mujahidin, which espouses broad anti-imperialist and socialist principles, also recognizes Khomeini...