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...impending SALT agreement, both officials took pains to rebut charges that the U.S. is becoming a second-rate power. Said Vance: "The distorted proposition being advanced by some that America is in a period of decline in the world is not only wrong as a matter of fact but dangerous as a basis for policy." If the U.S. shies away from military intervention abroad, he said, that is a sign not of weakness but of a mature recognition that "our military forces cannot provide a satisfactory answer to the purely internal problems of other nations...
...police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable for the fact that it is encircled by the major states of conflict in the region: Rhodesia, South Africa, Namibia (South West Africa), Angola and Zambia...
Botswana has never tried to conceal its heavy dependence on its trade links with Pretoria. "There is still only one way in and one way out," says a member of the government. And South Africa never lets Botswana forget this basic fact. Indeed, this is one reason Khama's government is so deeply committed to the cause of peace in the region. Once the fighting stops in Rhodesia, Botswana can begin to build new trade routes to Zambia, Namibia and even the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, thereby reducing its dependence on South Africa for access to the world...
...relationship between the priests of knowledge and the lay public. The expert will have to play a more conscious role as citizen, just as the ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule is to be lost by default...
...campus-like home in suburban St. Louis, scientists from the college and the company have been unwinding the secrets of "molecular messengers," which control the growth of tumors. Besides money, Monsanto, like many another firm, has quite a bit of technical expertise to offer. Says Hanley: "We can, in fact, bring something to the party...