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...retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy a 45,000-man army, a 4,000-man navy and a 17,000-man air force...
...instead be compelled to wash their hands of it entirely, leaving the spoils to competitors in other lands? Those are some of the difficult questions that were addressed last week when the General Accounting Office released a detailed study of the impact on American business of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices...
...topic of revolutions, I ask Fuentes, does he really think that fighting can solve socio-economic problems in Latin American nations? Many people have read into his works a recurring theme of the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution's ideal by a new corrupt bourgeoisie and landowners...
Walesa's next stop was the southern textile center of Bielsko-Biala, where strikers demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials had shut down 120 factories and paralyzed most of the surrounding province since Jan. 27. At midweek the provincial governor and three deputies submitted their resignations, apparently clearing the way for a solution. But Premier Jozef Pinkowski refused to accept the resignations immediately. With that, the talks broke off abruptly...
...travel-agency director who resold them as part of Super Bowl tour packages. The scalping charge is the latest round in a long-running feud between Davis and Rozelle, czar of the merged leagues. Rozelle has refused comment, but Davis is less restrained, saying: "I think he's corrupt...