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More significant than the relentless shrinkage in royal regimes is the fact that the shift in Libya gives the 14-nation Arab League a leftist majority for the first time. Before, the league was equally balanced between radical and conservative states-or, as the leftists put it, between the "free Arabs" and the "kept Arabs." Now there are eight left-leaning states (Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, the two Yemens and Libya), and six conservative governments that accept Western support and admit Western influence (the three kingdoms, plus Lebanon, Kuwait and Tunisia...
Under the Geneva Convention, signed by North Viet Nam in 1957, prisoners are to be humanely treated and identified, sick and injured released. The Red Cross is to be allowed to inspect the camps, and prisoners' mail allowed to be delivered. Despite the fact that many captured Americans are injured airmen, only nine men have been freed by North Viet Nam during the past five years. Because the North Vietnamese have generally refused to let prisoners write home and have not published the names of Americans held captive, no one knows exactly how many...
...Damascus may well have pulled off much more than the 46th reported hijacking of the year. The ease with which they commandeered the plane and the apparent immunity that they enjoyed in Syria suggest that air piracy is becoming a standard and almost absurdly routine tactic. The chilling fact is that no country or airline anywhere can feel safe from a group that wants a dramatic way to publicize its grievances...
...regime requested that the flights remain suspended "temporarily." In every case, the spokesmen for the new regime were junior officers-lieutenants and captains. Nobody could be sure whether they were the shock troops of the revolution or its leaders. One reason for the secrecy may be the fact that the intellectual elite in Libya is so small, and most of its personalities so well known, that the mere naming of the new Cabinet will indicate whether the regime is pro-Nasserite, Marxist, or middle of the road. One rumor had it that the actual leader is a civilian, which could...
...challenge in the two decades ahead, the report went on, is to "double the houses, power systems, sanitation, schools, transport, in fact the whole complex pattern of urban living created over several centuries." Can this goal be accomplished? The record in both rich and poor nations is discouraging, though there are a few bright examples. Through high-level planning, Russia, Britain, Venezuela and India have encouraged the rise of small cities to decentralize population. France and Bulgaria fostered new, strategically located regional centers. Switzerland and The Netherlands have attempted with some success to balance growth between cities and rural towns...