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...rights. But the trials are only a symptom of a deterioration that has been going on almost from the day Carter took office-and even before. The wary cooperation between the superpowers, which was the keystone of the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy and was widely labeled (somewhat to their dismay) detente, reached its peak with the balmy summit meetings of Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and 1973. But detente was never a condition totally free of East-West conflicts...
...cried an editorial in the Rand Daily Mail last week, "not again!" The South African newspaper had good reason for its dismay. In the same Port Elizabeth police building where Political Activist Stephen Biko was held for four days last September before his highly suspicious death from a supposedly self-inflicted bump on the head (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), another black prisoner died under curious circumstances. According to police, the prisoner leaped without warning to his death through an open fifth-floor window during a security police interrogation. When announcing the incident, Minister of Justice James T. Kruger declared...
...swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began to protest too. One maitre d' fled his dining room in dismay. Said he: "I'm going to stay and get killed by people...
...when she first appeared on the international tennis scene, a chubby-cheeked kid with a big serve and an even bigger appetite for the world beyond the quiet (pop. 5,000) Prague suburb of Revnice in her native Czechoslovakia. While the Czech Tennis Federation looked on with growing dismay, young Martina proved to be as precocious off-court as she was in competition. She relished her increasing celebrity and the freedom that went with it. When Navratilova arrived in some American town for a tournament, boutique owners braced for her spending sprees, and the local McDonald's franchise laid...
...chasm of disagreement between Jerusalem and Cairo on the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues to block a possible Middle East peace agreement-much to Washington's dismay. At his press conference last week, President Carter pledged that the U.S. "will not back off" from its determination to work for an Arab-Israeli settlement. He also categorized as "very disappointing" the Israeli government's refusal to concede that sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza will ever be relinquished. The President then observed, disapprovingly, that Israel had also "rejected an Egyptian proposal [on the territories...