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...Arab states were as divided as ever. The Palestine Liberation Organization's de facto foreign minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, for instance, taunted the Saudis for their continued financial backing of Egypt. Unless the Arabs took joint action, he declared, "the Israelis will not stop until they have reached Mecca and seized your oil wealth." To which the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, replied tartly: "Mecca has a God to protect it. As for the oil, it has men defending it." By week's end the group had voted to raise $9 billion to strengthen Arab defenses against...
...Syria is very extremist, would like to see us destroyed, etc., but Syria cannot attack us. It would be suicidal. Jordan will not attack us alone. They just can't do it. And Iraq is behind Jordan. So when we have peace between Israel and Egypt, we have de facto peace in the Middle East...
Both Premier Caramanlis and Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou have rejected the Turkish proposals as a form of de facto partition of the island. Their counterproposal demands more limited Turkish-Cypriot autonomy, a guaranteed return to their homes for the majority of Greek-Cypriot refugees, and withdrawal of 29,000 Turkish troops still on the island...
...farmers, the real victims are the consumers. Complains New Yorker Henrietta Wise: "Every time I walk into a grocery store, I'm terrified. It's more than the prices, it's the whole concept of food. It's the basic substance of life." Some shoppers have become de facto vegetarians because of the sky-high price of meat, but vegetables are no bargain either. Marsha Avrushin of Oak Park, Mich., has taken to prowling supermarkets for off-brand items. Says she: "When I was a kid, a candy bar was a real treat. What makes my kids' mouths water...
...domestic policy changes as a pre-condition for making loans. The fact that the Quebec government has significantly watered down its labor legislation, and has moved at a snail's pace on the issue of nationalization of one of the province's biggest asbestos companies, already indicates the de facto importance to Quebec of foreign capital interests. Levesque's trips both to the Economic Club in New York, and to Harvard last week, are symptoms of an already compromised sovereignty...