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...year. Even if growth is that robust, the office figures that the maximum sum available for additional social spending by 1980 will be $50 billion-not nearly enough to cover the costs of such ambitious programs as national health insurance. There is no easy escape from Carter's dilemma. Before his first term ends, he is doubtless going to have to make a hard, politically hazardous choice between cutting and spending...
...pursued without due sensitivity to the rights of the Palestinian people. This resulted in the complex tragedy that plagues the Middle East. We who believe that ending one injustice should not be done by committing another should try to find a just and human way out of this complicated dilemma. To this aim, we trust that the United States will pursue with resolution and determination the effort to accord the Palestinian people their legitimate right to self-determination and help us build a new Middle East that respects national rights and that is free from discrimination, domination and racialism. This...
...dilemma is that you all expect me to write controversial stuff all the time now and save the witty comments for my lunch buddies in Quincy House that can stand listening...
Part of the Soviet dilemma stems from the Helsinki agreement, which many at first regarded as a victory for Moscow because it supposedly established the "inviolability" of existing frontiers, thus legitimizing the Soviet takeover of the Baltic states and the status quo in Eastern Europe. The agreement also contained broad humanitarian declarations in favor of the right of people to leave and enter countries on family visits, access to foreign publications, international youth meetings, and the improvement of working conditions for journalists abroad. Moscow presumably saw nothing too threatening in those principles. After all, far more specific rights are guaranteed...
...reasoning behind that move?which in hindsight seems questionable ?was that since most Americans were to be vaccinated against swine flu, those at highest risk might as well be immunized against A/Victoria at the same time. All this posed a dilemma for federal decision makers: Should they risk giving the double-mix vaccine again, despite the hazard of Guillain-Barré syndrome, to guard the most vulnerable against the resurgent A/Victoria strain...