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...huge concentration of armies and armaments is dangerous in itself. Peaceful ties will be far easier to build if this concentration is reduced on both sides without upsetting the existing balance of forces. This is precisely what we are seeking to achieve in Vienna...
Those were also the years when the volatile Sihanouk brilliantly maintained his balancing act of keeping Cambodia neutral. "He got the U.S. to build a four-lane highway, to the port of Kompong Som," recalls Wilde, "and when the monsoons washed parts of it away, he got the Russians to repair it. He delighted in inviting the diplomatic corps to help build irrigation projects. Every time he dug up a bit of earth at one of those ceremonies, the peasants would catch it, for he was sacred and so was everything he touched...
WASHINGTON--The Carter administration has sent a "strong protest" to Israel in response to the Israeli government's decision to build three military outposts on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an administration official said Tuesday...
...local economy benefits too. Siskiyou County does not have to build roads, sewers and schools for the R-Ranch campers. Nor does it need to provide the community fire and police protection that a town would require. Yet it reaps almost $2 million annually in property taxes and other income from the private preserve. The biggest winners may be the original developers, who stand to collect a windfall by selling ownership shares at a profit. Under California state law, a bank holds campers' antes in escrow until 60% of the allotted deeds have been sold. Then their deeds, like...
Iraq and Syria have taken steps in recent months to end their long political feud and lead the Arab opposition to the Camp David peace accords. Both hardline states oppose Egypt's peace moves and have vowed to build up their military challenge to Israel to compensate for Egypt's withdrawal from the conflict...