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South Africa's rejection of U.N.-supervised elections will probably result in the creation of a Namibian government friendly to South Africa, without the participation of SWAPO, analysts said yesterday...
Belatedly, and at great cost, the Shah himself has begun to comprehend the real nature of Iran's malaise and his role in its creation (see Interview page 43). In other societies run by strong rulers - Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, Leopold Senghor's Senegal, Tito's Yugoslavia - literate and cultivated populations have succeeded in matching political progress with economic and cultural development. But Iran's unique society, so influenced by its religious structure and rooted for centuries in a different world, simply could not adjust to such radical change. The Shah failed to realize that the dramatic alterations...
Washington entered the game in 1955 with the creation of the Baghdad pact, a virtual invention of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who envisioned the alliance as a Southwest Asian counterpart of NATO. The original members, in addition to Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, were Iraq and Britain; the U.S. was an associate member. Iraq was dropped after a radical leftist government came to power in 1958, and the alliance moved its headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara. The diplomats and generals who renamed the organization CENTO presumably never bothered to check the dictionary, which defines "cento" as "a patchwork...
...perils of genetic engineering that its vast potential for good has often been overlooked. Now that imbalance should be somewhat corrected. Last week, after months of careful, skillful and imaginative use of the new gene-splicing techniques, California scientists announced that they had achieved a long sought goal: the creation in the lab of a microbe that can manufacture human-type insulin...
...internal structure of the convention, at least, is clear. Its constitution provides for the creation of a fairly typical student government. There will be 85 members in the assembly, with students elected from their respective Houses and living areas of the Yard. There are provisions for recalls, referendums and grass-roots meetings between the representatives and their constituencies, to make sure student opinion is well represented. The assembly will have a few standing committees to deal with housing, education, the organization of social functions, and the University's disciplinary policies toward students...