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Over eleven years Watt held Washington jobs that honed his expertise and his ideology. As a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyist, he worked to defeat all manner of environmental regulation. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations he served a well-rounded apprenticeship: as an Interior deputy in charge of water management, as director of the department's land-buying Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and, finally, as a federal power commissioner. As a result, Secretary Watt's technical mastery of his job is positively staggering...
...Palestinians refused to acknowledge such a crushing defeat. As Issam Sartawi, an adviser to P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat, puts it: "We have learned the hard way how to transfer our military battle into a political victory. Regardless of what happens in Beirut, we shall get out of it stronger than we were." There was doubtless a strong measure of wishful thinking in that assessment, but many observers felt that the P.L.O. might realize political and diplomatic gains that the Israelis had hardly intended to promote when they stormed across the Lebanese border on June 6. Said Harvard University Professor Stanley...
...only six days in 1967. The siege has therefore boosted the popular stock of the P.L.O. in the Arab world. Although most of the Arab governments probably wanted to see the troublesome P.L.O. cut down to size militarily in the early phases of the invasion, none desired an outright defeat. In the past month, there has been a grudging resurgence of Arab support, if for no other reason than self-interest: the Palestinian issue has long been a litmus test of Arab nationalism, and no regime that wishes to stay in power can afford to ignore...
...lead to the Third World War. This crisis will lead to other crises in the future, and those in turn will eventually bring about an Arab decision to liberate our own lands. Then the war will not just be with Israel, but with America as well. If the Arabs defeat the Israelis, America will be forced to intervene directly or indirectly, and that will lead to the intervention of the Soviet Union. Remember that Israel has already become a nuclear power and in that way too is jeopardizing the peace of the world...
Some of the loudest applause came from Representative Timothy Wirth of Colorado, who last month conceded temporary defeat in a battle to pass legislation that included many of the changes Greene has now demanded. Said Wirth: "I am pleased that Judge Greene shares the view that while the settlement will significantly enhance competition in the telecommunications industry, it also needed major changes...