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...that "of all cultural adjustments, the notion of an end to progress seems the most difficult for Americans to accept." What is progress? The neutron bomb, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Miami? Perhaps the real American myth is believing that progress will eventually solve our cultural, economic and spiritual problems...
...part of his appeal today is due to nostalgia. In hindsight, particularly because of Carter's shortcomings, Ford seems to have been a better President than he was considered at the time. But he is at odds with Reagan on many questions ranging from the ERA to the Panama Canal. At 67, he could offer the 69-year-old Reagan no help on the age issue; some voters might even have found a Reagan-Ford ticket slightly out of tune with the G.O.P. convention slogan: TOGETHER?A NEW BEGINNING. With Bush, 56, as Reagan's running mate, the G.O.P. ticket...
...Egypt is basking in a spell of peace-induced prosperity. Thanks to the return of the Sinai oilfields, which Israel had held since the 1967 war, Egypt is now pumping 625,000 bbl. of oil per day, and this year will earn $2 billion in petroleum export revenues. Suez Canal tolls should amount to nearly $1 billion by next year, and Egyptian workers abroad currently send $2 billion per year back home. Overall, the rise in foreign-exchange earnings, from $2.6 billion in 1975 to $7 billion in 1979, has produced an impressive economic growth rate of 8.5%. However...
Leading the right-wing assault was the imperturbable Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who reveled in the admiration of a coterie of delegates as he railed against the Panama Canal Treaties and the recognition of mainland China. But by now the Reagan forces were alarmed at the attacks on the platform by what some of them called the "grass eaters and know nothings." Congressman Jack Kemp and Richard Allen, Reagan's top foreign policy adviser, managed to prevent any alteration of the party planks on Panama and China. Allen emphasized that Reagan, while deploring the brusque way Carter severed...
Inside a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, across the Grand Canal from the Doge's Palace, the Europeans spent several hours deliberating their Middle East policy statement. Giscard, who had long been out in front in favor of Palestinian self-determination, wanted the statement to call for outright "participation" of the P.L.O. in negotiations. In the end, faced with opposition from Denmark and The Netherlands and, most of all, by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he conceded that such wording was premature; the conferees agreed to use the less provocative term "associate...