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...Soviet planners see?or profess to see ?just the opposite: a threatening NATO to the west, a threatening China to the east, a less friendly India to the south, mishaps and reverses everywhere. It is this real or feigned element of paranoia in Soviet policy that makes the current prospects confronting Washington so tricky. Even though one of the purposes of Carter's China move may well have been to gain some geopolitical leverage on Moscow, he apparently felt confident that Moscow would not regard it as an anti-Soviet shift. Shortly after he surprised the world...
...foreign affairs. Groups of Democrats and Republicans have returned from visits to the Soviet Union with misgivings. Their worries will lead most of them to support Carter's recognition of China, and they will probably confirm a U.S. Ambassador to Peking, expected to be Leonard Woodcock, the current chief of the U.S. Liaison Office. But conservatives will berate Carter for terminating the defense treaty with Taiwan. Barry Goldwater's office is cranking up bills to restrict the President's power to end treaties. "We will seek assurances on Taiwan," says Kansas Republican Robert Dole, who wants...
...killers are responsible for most, but not all, of Spain's current wave of terrorism. Last week, for example, Supreme Court Justice Miguel Cruz Cuenca was killed by gunfire on a busy downtown Madrid street. His murder, according to police was the work not of ETA but of another group of Marxist terrorists, GRAPO (for Oct 1 Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups), which the authorities had thought was in decline. But ETA was responsible for the assassination two weeks ago of General Constantino Ortin Gil, 63, Madrid's military governor, and the shooting of a policeman who died last...
...Henry Fairlie. a transplanted Englishman who often combines good sense and fatuity. On the dubious premise that trends can be divided patly into decades, Fairlie proclaims that this is a Decade of No Survivors, meaning that no institution came out of the '60s intact. After gloomily surveying the current cultural barrenness, he speaks of the Decade with No Audience and concludes even more gloomily with the Decade of No Nation. For this contribution, Fairlie deserves the Deep Thumb a ward-of the decade, or at least of the year...
...report also showed that Carter's business received terms on the loan that were better than the then-current prime lending rate--supposedly the lowest rate available to borrowers...