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...large degree, the chances for such a peace depend on the future of the P.L.O. The Israeli strategy, as directed by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, called for crushing all P.L.O. military and political influence. Indeed many Israeli observers were ready last week to declare the P.L.O. dead and buried even before the guerrillas evacuated Beirut...
...time when people are more conscious of their rights and privileges. For India, with its vast population [683 million], everything is multiplied that many times. Methods that work in an advanced society do not always work in ours. We are told by the U.S., for instance, that we should depend more on private commercial borrowing, but that just is not possible. There are limits to it. And where there are gaps, the state has to step...
...water. Containing some 67 trillion gal. of fresh water, enough to cover all of the U.S. to a depth of 10 ft., the Great Lakes are a priceless asset to those who live and work along their shores. More than 24 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on them for drinking water. Industries in both countries draw off 55 billion gal. a year...
...nothing at all. Indeed, despite official protestations at the beginning of the conflict that the Soviet Union supported the Arab cause "not in words but in deeds," the Kremlin fortunately has shown a greater willingness to use harsh rhetoric than to intervene on behalf of the two participants who depend heavily on Soviet political and military support, Syria and the P.L.O...
...outcome may depend largely on Reagan's overall political fortunes and the strength of the antinuclear movement a year or two from now. Administration hard-liners believe that no START is better than warmed-over SALT. They fear, in Rostow's words, that it would be "fatal to say we are trying to get an agreement before an election." The Soviets could be tempted to read that as a signal that they need only wait until American resolve in the negotiations cracks under domestic political pressure...