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...always told that Arabs are all brothers, with one point of view. But they have totally different points of view on many issues." The participants came away deeply concerned about the difficulties the U.S. faces. John Beckett of Transamerica deplored the lack of a "decent export policy." Former Diplomat Sol Linowitz recommended that the U.S. "get its priorities about the Soviet Union reorganized." Summed up IBM's Watson: "It's pretty hard to sell democracy. While Soviet ideas are very hollow, they can be sold very quickly to people who have nothing more than camels and goats...
...much weight should be given to these Saudi statements is problematic. The Saudis have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. and have often denounced Communism as "godless." They may merely be trying to win a consensus in favor of the Fahd plan from pro-Soviet states at an Arab summit scheduled to convene in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. Says one European diplomat in Beirut: "The Saudis want Syrian and, if possible, Libyan support, and they want Washington to realize that America is not running the only game in town. So even though they still fear the Soviets, they find...
...Secretary of State Alexander Haig help matters when he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that NATO contingency plans included exploding a nuclear device as a "demonstration" to persuade the Soviets to fall back, should they seek to overrun Western Europe. Grumbled a Western diplomat in Bonn: "Which sounds best to the West Germans in the present circumstances, Brezhnev waffling about his desire for peace, or Haig waffling about firing a warning nuclear shot above the Russians' heads?" Lamented a member of Schmidt's divided Social Democratic Party: "Those who say 'Better red than dead...
...surprisingly, Maccoby himself has done a little leading in his time. In 1954, as the president of The Crimson, he and George Abrams, the managing editor, stole the Lampoon's treasured ibis statue and presented it to a high-ranking Russian diplomat in New York as a token of goodwill and friendship on the part of all American students...
...acute. To an editor: "When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split." On James M. Cain (Double Indemnity): "Every thing he writes smells like a billy goat." On Somerset Maugham: His gift "belongs to the great judge or the great diplomat ... He would have made a great Roman." On John P. Marquand: "Beautiful detailed observation and the total effect of a steel engraving with no col or at all. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway is that their sort...