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...million) and powerful country in the Arab world, he will enjoy only a fraction of the authority that Nasser wielded. The key question is whether he will be sufficiently strong to resist Arab pressure to resume the war with Is rael. Nasser had been well aware of this dilemma. A few years ago, he told a British biographer, David Wynne-Morgan: "I categorically do not want to go to war with Israel. But any Arab leader who says so will be out the following morning."When Israeli Trans port Minister Shimon Peres heard of the Egyptian President's death...
...cast fresh uncertainty on Soviet-American relations at a time when Nixon was hoping to bring his "era of negotiation" to full reality. The eruption posed a new dilemma for a President whose doctrine is to reduce U.S. forces and commitments abroad while at the same time preserving stability. Most frightening of all, it emphasized the difficulty both world powers have in applying their strength with precision and in small doses...
...need to maintain a world role cannot possibly be an empire today. But the U.S. has legitimate quasi-imperial needs and obligations in the sense of helping to maintain (as distinct from dictating) stability in wide areas. How to do this in today's world is the dilemma behind the Middle East conflict...
...Black Studies programs also have a "functional" role in contemporary society. W. E. B. DuBois said nearly seventy years ago that the problem of the twentieth century was the ?? of the color line. That state?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? of the American racial dilemma. That the old approaches are not resolving problems arising out of that matrix has long been evident...
...Underlying this dilemma is another problem that threatens the future of coed living. Physical conditions in the Houses are far more attractive than they are in the Radcliffe Quad, and that, perhaps even more than the uneven ratio, has led many male undergraduates to oppose an extensive or long-term coed plan. The coed switch that will begin this Fall had to be curtailed by almost a third because of large-scale unwillingness to move to the Cliffe...