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...terms, the 228-to-195 House vote Thursday night to shut off covert U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas who are fighting the Marxist government of Nicaragua will have no immediate effect. The Republican-controlled Senate almost certainly will not approve a similar bill. So the contras' campaign will continue???though whether the Administration can persuade Congress to renew U.S. support for the guerrilla struggle, much less double it as President Reagan wants to do in the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, is now in doubt...
...SALT II treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union capped 6½ years of negotiations. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev hope that when they sign the treaty next month, they will be keeping alive a process that began with SALT I a dozen years ago and will continue???in SALT III, IV and V?for decades to come. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks have been called the most important negotiations of the postwar era. But whether SALT II ever becomes the law of the land, indeed whether the SALT process is to continue, depends on the U.S. Senate, which must...
...experts are split down the middle over whether the spending spree will continue???or falter in early 1979 and lead the economy into recession. Detroit's automakers, most of whom had underestimated the strength of this year's sales, almost unanimously expect a repeat of 1978's performance next year. Real estate brokers, pointing to high demand from the now grown "baby boom" generation, predict a banner year in 1979. Yet many economists agree with Vice President Ted Tung of Continental Illinois Bank, who warns, "There will be a substantial slowing of consumer spending in the next six months...
...Polish workers over low wages and high food prices than of Brzezinski's "mischiefmaking" in Poland, and therefore the Kremlin has little choice but to allow the East Europeans to turn westward for trade. That economic fact of life leads Washington to calculate that it has enough latitude to continue???and perhaps expand?its new East Europe policy...
...Palestinians. Having grown up in the Jewish state, many of these Arab youths speak fluent Hebrew, know the customs of the country and can easily be mistaken for Jews. If sufficient numbers of them were to join the terrorists?a realistic possibility should the causes of Arab unrest continue???Israel might well find itself combatting a war on its home front as well as a threat on its frontiers...
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