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Some skeptics still wonder how far the Eurocommunists are prepared to go. "The crux of the matter is that in no case did the numerous parties tell the Russians to cut it out or they would stop having relations," points out Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. What is more, the Communist parties have a good reason to try new tactics: the need to increase their popularity at the polls. In Spain, Carrillo's ulterior motive may be that he is trying to broaden support for a party riven by factionalism and in serious danger...
...National Security Adviser to draft statements for himself and the President warning Administration members of the consequences of discussing security information with reporters. According to a high White House aide, announcement of the guidelines had to be rushed because news of their existence was beginning to leak. The crux of the President's order: "All contacts with any element of the news media in which classified National Security Council matters or classified intelligence information are discussed will require the advance approval of a senior official. In the event of unauthorized disclosure of such information, Government employees who have...
...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
SPROATS ARGUMENT centers around the five broadcasts Wodehouse made. These provided the crux of the evidence against the author. The broadcasts were mainly Wodehouse's descriptions of life in an internment camp. Because of their often light-hearted tone, many believed that Wodehouse was attempting to show the Germans in a favorable light. But a careful examination of the transcripts (which Sproat includes in full in the appendix) shows only the gentle sarcasm which pervaded everything Wodehouse ever wrote. There is no evidence that he sympathized with the Nazis in the tape; in fact, much of what was interpreted...
...Princeton Club, ostensibly to consummate the deal. At the conclusion of the sale, undercover agents arrest Greek-born John Papanastassiou, 34, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. At his Riverside Drive apartment, police cart off 95 more rare books and manuscripts, while Papanastassiou, in jail, insists that "the crux of the matter lies elsewhere." Most of the 267 missing books are still at large...