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Counsels of Caution. Despite the incendiary speeches and the orchestrated street demonstrations in Arab capitals, few experts expected a major conflagration. Part of the world, at least, seemed to be learning to live less nervously with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Last spring President Nixon described the Middle East as a "powder keg," needing only the tiniest spark to explode. Last week, however, Washington viewed the current situation coolly, and the State Department said merely that it was counseling "restraint" to both sides. Moscow made no comment publicly, but U.S. diplomats believe that the Soviets have no interest in escalating hostilities...
...strategic terms, the Soviet involvement in the Middle East could prove an even more hazardous venture. Having assumed the role of armorers and advisers to the Arabs,, they can preserve and extend their influence only if they succeed in substantially improving Arab military capability. As the Arabs improve under Russian tutelage, however, they will grow increasingly impatient to tackle the Israelis once more-and invite another humiliation. As one Russian military adviser recently told an East European ambassador in Cairo, it will take "a generation" for Egyptian military skills to exceed Israel's. Whether the Egyptians or their brethren...
...What is more, the barriers between Bulgarians and bourgeois foreigners are beginning to tumble. As the most repressive and Sovietized state in the East bloc, Bulgaria is considered to be the only truly "safe" vacationland for Soviet and East German citizens, who are rarely allowed to travel to the West. At the Golden Sands and other Black Sea resorts, these tourists are kept segregated in hotels with names like Moskva and Berlin. But such isolation has proved ineffective, partly because hotels for Easterners and Westerners are often identical. One night this summer, an English tourist, shnoggered on the delicious...
...beach, too, offers opportunities for various kinds of East-West relationships. German families, dispersed in a divided Germany, have tearful reunions on the golden sands. Polish black-marketeers, who drive down to Bulgaria every summer loaded with sheepskins, do a brisk seaside business with West Europeans. And everyone-capitalist or Communist-can now refresh themselves with Kaba Kara under the brilliant Bulgarian sun. Once regarded in the Communist world as the very symbol of American and capitalist decadence. Coca-Cola is now bottled in Bulgaria under U.S. license...
...paleontologists. If he is indeed a hominid, Rama would be the direct predecessor of a creature called Australopithecus (southern ape), who, in turn, has long been accepted by scientists as being man's most immediate ancestor among the primates. Unlike the ape: who lived with him in East Africa, the short (just over 4 ft.), heavy-jawed man ape, Australopithecus, stood erect, eating meat as well as fruits and vegetables and was probably the first creature to make and use tools of stone.* Until recently, most paleontologists were certain that Australopithecus lived no more thar 2,000,000 years...