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Born to a prosperous farming family in Tikrit, a small town 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, Saddam as a student eagerly joined the nationalist ferment against Iraq's pro-Western monarchy. In 1959, under sentence of death in absentia for his involvement in an assassination attempt against President Abdul Karim Kassem, a general who had seized power the year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under...
...progress on the Palestinian issue, beyond the ambiguous Camp David formula, is indispensable in this respect. So is an Iranian policy that solves the hostage crisis without destroying the chances of cooperation between the U.S. and Iran once Iran's revolution moves, as it inevitably must, from fervor and ferment to reconstruction and management. The third effort should aim at achieving a détente without illusions. We need a framework for change through competition waged in ways acceptable to both sides. This entails a resumption of arms control negotiations, a coordinated Western policy on East-West trade and far greater...
...apparent that there's a certain amount of ferment," said presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell of the hostage issue, but "whether that ferment produces wine or vinegar remains to be seen." Last week's clues pointed toward wine. Not only did Carter say, in his first press conference in eleven weeks, that there were "positive signs" in the attempts to free the hostages, but near week's end Iran's newly elected President, Abolhassan Banisadr, also issued the most encouraging statement to come from a responsible Iranian official since the militants seized the Americans last...
...addition, countries looking for a more human approach will shun the HIID. If Harberger comes, he will give advice that will contribute to brutal political repression and to economic injustice. Harvard would make a worthier and wise decision if it chose someone who would encourage a ferment of ideas, and someone with the breadth of imagination to envision an approach that will help put an end to the suffering and starvation...
...seem curiously unwilling to subject their beliefs to empirical tests. The field I know is a normal academic cross-section, containing the variously brilliant, troubled, foolish, generous, devoted, opportunistic, self-righteous, insecure, hypocritical, self-examining, bigoted, humane, confused, courageous, narrow, fiery, and kind. The field is in a creative ferment, and the meaning which its workers find in it is as various as their own backgrounds, imaginations, and moral visions make it. There are Marxist sociobiologists, as well as feminist, religious, liberal, anarchist, and conservative sociobiologists. Certainly, in the fullness of time it is not impossible for sociobiology to produce...