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...considerably less sanguine in its assessment of the situation. It realizes that an independent Iran, even an Islamic republic run by Khomeini, is the most reliable buffer between the Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf. Washington therefore will do nothing to push Iran into the Soviet orbit. On the other hand, the U.S. strongly favors the survival of Saddam Hussein, who in his quest for Western support has steadily moderated his anti-Israeli and anti-American radicalism. The U.S. probably welcomed Saddam Hussein's thrust into Iran in September 1980, believing it would increase the pressure on Khomeini...
...Cairo, anxious to see that no last-minute hitches would prevent the Sinai withdrawal from taking place on schedule. The event was a momentous one, poignant for the Egyptians, frightening for the Israelis. The Sinai, captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War, had given the Israelis a buffer against a traditional enemy and had provided a new frontier for adventurous young settlers. Under the terms of Camp David, the Israelis had agreed to surrender the Sinai in three stages in return for a peace treaty with Egypt. It was a good bargain for both sides. But in the weeks...
...Israel's brave surrender of its oilfields, frontier towns and strategic buffer zone--as impressive as it is--has not accomplished the goals first proposed in 1977 by the late Anwar Sadat and later nurtured by Jimmy Carter. The dream of lasting peace has faded behind the smoke of gun battles and vehement declarations from various combatants that no more concessions will be made. Instead of the first giant step toward a new understanding, the completion of the Sinai agreement has ironically become an exception in a furious conflict...
...growing loneliness, what Nixon needed above all was a keeper of the gate, someone to buffer him from the conflict that he now had even less desire to handle directly. On the evening of May 2, I received a telephone call from Rose Mary Woods, his touchingly loyal secretary who had been banished to the periphery by Haldeman but who was now back as one of Nixon's principal props. Nixon wanted to bring in Alexander Haig as chief of staff, she told me, for a week or two. He was afraid I might resent seeing my former subordinate...
...status quo, the political practicality and economic costs and benefits of its key proposals (e.g. elimination of the brain drain from LDC's renegotiation of the debts of LDC's preferential transfer of technology and appropriate industries to LDC's expansion of the Generalized System of Preferences; formation of buffer stocks, producers associations, and indexation programs with respect to the major commodities of LDC's creation of a code of conduct for transnationals; and an increase in the role of Special Drawing Rights in the international monetary system). And if we cannot give significant support to the NIEO, then...