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...turned out to be the costliest and most dangerous engagement in 25 years of Middle East tension, and its fearful consequences were still not fully calculated. Last week the Yom Kippur War (as Israelis call it) threatened to involve not only Israelis and Arabs, but Russians and Americans as well, in a bewildering and exhaustive kaleidoscope of crisis. The week began with a seemingly firm display of East-West détente: a joint Moscow-Washington resolution introduced in the United Nations that called for a stop to the fighting and the commencement of peace negotiations. By midweek...
...long been a puzzle to hard-drinking Westerners. The difference is often explained away by Oriental cultural or social traditions, like the strong Chinese taboo against public drunkenness. But now a group at the University of North Carolina has given new weight to a more recent explanation: the East-West drinking disparity may be primarily caused by genetic differences...
Cyrus Eaton is one of the most contradictory figures in U.S. business: an archetypal capitalist worth more than $150 million, he regularly visits Communist capitals from Havana to Hanoi in an attempt to promote East-West détente. He has made the Cleveland-based Chesapeake& Ohio one of the few profitable railroads in the country; last year it doubled its earnings, to $60 million. Eaton, at 89, talks and acts as though he plans to stay active in business forever-and lately that ambition has become all too painfully believable for his impatient corporate colonels. Last week, while Eaton...
Speaking of East-West détente at a Moscow press conference last month, Sakharov warned that "rapprochement without democratization is very dangerous. It might lead to very grave consequences inside our country and contaminate the whole world with an antidemocratic character." This was strong criticism indeed of Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev's policy of seeking economic cooperation abroad while putting down dissent at home. Sakharov compounded his offense by recommending one action that the U.S. Congress could take to open Soviet doors -adopting the Jackson Amendment, which would bar most-favored-nation economic status to countries restricting emigration...
Assessing the impact of these repressive acts on East-West détente, TIME Moscow Correspondent John Shaw cabled last week that "the Soviet leaders are setting the stage for the meeting of the European Security Conference in Geneva on Sept 18. They are putting the West on notice that they are eager to import foreign technology, but are adamant in rejecting the 'freer flow' of ideas proposed by Western ESC nations. The Soviets have revealed that dissent is a live issue at home, contradicted their claim that the dissenters are few and unimportant, reverted to Stalinist methods...