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...separate committee. Though it is unclear what stand the N.C.C. will take, its officials are trying to sound conciliatory. Says Jones: "Relationships with our Jewish friends must be kept at the very closest level." But Rabbi James Rudin, the American Jewish Committee N.C.C. observer for eight years, feels "profound dismay" over the panel's work to date and demands that the council repudiate the P.L.O.'s "continuous, unbroken resort to terrorism, to national genocide...
...have been reading with some dismay your coverage of the proposed appointment of Arnold Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...dismay derives from several factors. First, it appears to me that, in adopting opposition to the appointment as a "cause," the Crimson has lost some journalistic objectivity. The opposition seems to get vastly more coverage than the support. It is the sort of journalism which I would expect from William Loeb in my home state of New Hampshire, but from Harvard I look for more. How about giving someone who favors the appointment a column or two to present that viewpoint to your readers...
...Islamic revolution in Iran. But is is also clear that, certainly in recent years, they have not considered Iran part of the Soviet orbit and were willing to live in peaceful relations (including fairly extensive trade) with the repressive government of the Shah. This was much to the dismay of the Iranian Communist Party--the Tudeh--which often complained bitterly. The strong claims made so far by U.S. leaders that the Soviets were heading for the Persian Gulf and control of the oil fields, or at least the oil shipping routes, are broad speculation. To date, the Soviets...
...newweapons to countries with long standing enmities such as those which exist between Pakistan and India. In addition, the U.S. decision to play the "China card" by supplying militarily useable technologies to that country seems to bear out the Soviet estimate of U.S. intentions. I can only look with dismay at what seems to a U.S. Middle East policy based more on election year needs than on prudent judgment about how to avoid war and secure a stable and peaceful Middle East...