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...guilty verdict has been a foregone conclusion since March 1977, when the government newspaper Izvestiya?just before Shcharansky's arrest?accused him of spying for the CIA. According to Shcharansky's brother Leonid, who was admitted to the courtroom, the defendant's first action was to dismiss the lawyer who had been assigned to him by the KGB in place of the attorney he had requested and been denied. Conducting his own defense, Shcharansky made a one-hour opening statement to the presiding judge and two lay assessors who constituted a jury. During the five-day trial, his brother later...
...will become what he calls a "full partner" in the negotiations. Translation: he wants the U.S. to come up with its own peace plan, judging that it would be closer to Egypt's position than to Israel's and would not be easy for the Israelis to dismiss out of hand...
Urban shoppers, stunned as they are at beef prices climbing 4% in April alone and perhaps another 5% in May, should not lightly dismiss this plaint. To do so risks biting the hand that feeds. The U.S. cattleman is the descendant of the romantic cowboy, and for the most part he preserves those storied virtues of ruggedness, independence and dawn-to-dark hard work. But he is also a modern businessman, worried about cash flow and capital costs and, of course, interest rates. Says a typical cattle raiser in Oregon: "My family has been in this business for three generations...
...been rejected by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and other Arabs. It is overwhelmingly denounced by the West Bank Palestinians on the ground that it would merely continue an occupation they find hateful and humiliating. Home rule, they argue, in no way satisfies their need for a national identity. They dismiss the security argument as fraudulent. Soldier for soldier, weapon for weapon, Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East despite its small size; the West Bank, which almost certainly would be demilitarized in a peace settlement giving it autonomy, has no airport, no arms factories and no means...
...called for the huge sums spent on weapons development to be channeled into alleviating poverty and exploring new sources of energy. To expect any such sweeping progress toward the centuries-old goal of disarmament was obviously unrealistic, and one West German Foreign Ministry official went so far as to dismiss the conference as "a propaganda exercise for all concerned." Perhaps so, but other speakers broached more modest ideas that could at least provide some safety markings on the global minefield, if not defuse...