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...court's founders and firmest supporters, Washington would also lose much international credibility by withdrawing in the face of defeat. "You cannot be one of the major law-keeping forces in the world and then boycott the first major law court in the world," said Christopher Mitchell-Heggs, a Paris-based international lawyer. "When Iran ignored the jurisdiction, it successfully put itself out of bounds as an international partner. Nobody would treat it seriously, and all its major international agreements lapsed." At the same time, it is not unusual for a government to settle such disputes out of court...
...Reich's teaching, like his policies, are not for everyone. Students say that he is not the most scholarly of professors and does not have the firmest hold on micro and macro economic theories, but instead paints with a broad brush. For that reason he tends to draw students who are more interested in politics than academia. As one comments. "Bob is not an academician by any means, but he is good for the people he is teaching and preparing for government." Another adds. "His teaching is geared to what the Democrats should...
...Even the firmest believer in the balance of power theory would wonder if peace could perhaps be more easily attained by channeling the energy required to formulate a complex plan to spend $1.5 trillion toward arms control rather than arms proliferation...
...Superwomen" of the sport, of whom there are about 50 in the U.S.-and the "average" female body builder. Most participants fall into the second category: women who work out just enough to compete in body-building contests where top prize goes to the best-proportioned, shapeliest and firmest body. Women can easily take off a few pounds in the first month after they start working out, says Tim Kimber, general manager of Gold's. But to qualify for competition they must buckle down to rigorous, five-times-a-week training. "Women can actually mold their figures...
Ironically, one of CENTO's firmest boosters is the People's Republic of China. In Tehran last month, China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng told the Shah that he was concerned about what an Iranian official later paraphrased as "the moral, physical and political deterioration of the traditional groupings in the area." China has close ties to Pakistan, even even though though it it is miffed with the Zia regime for last year's overthrow of Bhutto, whom Peking admired, and by Pakistan's tentative moves toward an accommodation with Moscow. So, in the geopolitics of the '70s, China ranks...