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...easy answer, that the dilemma is too complex to resolve in light of East-West tensions, will not do. Says Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin: "Using such justifications as 'The business is good for our balance of payments' or 'If we do not sell weapons, someone else will,' the arms merchants and their government spokesmen are turning the world into a vast armed camp." The long line of weapons that helped seal Sadat's friendship with the U.S. were paraded past his grandstand through the dusty streets of an impoverished country where the per capita income...
...nearly two years a Soviet expeditionary force of 85,000 troops has propped up Afghanistan's Communist regime against a motley but tenacious resistance movement. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has become a chronic irritant in East-West relations: Secretary of State Alexander Haig reiterated U.S. outrage in his talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations a month ago, and the Afghanistan issue will probably be debated in the U.N. General Assembly next month. Most Western press coverage of the conflict has come from listening posts in Pakistan and India and from reporters who have slipped...
...always on the move, always observing with a cold eye. He has never endorsed any political line, and although his '40s antiFascism is a matter of record, Canetti is neither a NATO hardliner nor an Iron Curtain apologist: his Nobel cannot be totted on either Scoreboard in the East-West propa ganda Olympics. Canetti embodies a more important quality often omit ted in the literature committee's global approach. He is a major writ er, gifted with a unique talent and an original, if sometimes grisly humanism...
...Good, naturally with variations according to what issue we are dealing with. On the East-West balance, our approaches, without being identical, are sufficiently close that we do not have serious problems. Very real, on the other hand, is the divergence with regard to people under the thumb of Latin American oligarchies. But by and large, Franco-American policy is based on dialogue. We discuss and seek agreement. And we are, both of us, faithful to the Alliance that unites us in defense of peace and that expresses a common civilization...
...that first meeting went smoothly enough, the diplomatic parrying at the U.N. General Assembly's 36th session did not. Delegates were somewhat surprised that Haig chose to address the assembly on the problems of promoting the economic growth of poor nations, rather than on East-West issues. He rejected a Third World proposal for a massive shift of wealth from rich nations to poor nations as "unrealistic" and emphasized private investment as a potential cure for poverty. The solution did not sit well with many of his listeners...