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...population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which would leave whites and Afrikaners in the minority. This barrier, together with South Africa's insistence on keeping a buffer state between itself and Angola, has reduced negotiations for Namibian independence to fruitless, repetitive jockeyings...
Newsweek's call for fiscal austerity proves particularly fruitless because of the tremendous spending inherent in other parts of the program, particularly the establishment of millions of public-works jobs through the recreation of the Works Progress Administration. Even though deficits in and of themselves pose no great hazard to economic well-being, a policy of fiscal inconsistency does. A government that runs up huge debts while preaching the virtues of budgetary prudence confuses the public and clouds the private sector's ability to make sound decisions. That may be the only clear lesson of the Reagan Administration's experiment...
Meanwhile, new information has become available on the discovery of the latest sub-surface invasion. A Swedish fisherman claimed to have first sighted a foreign vessel in the Musko port nearly four weeks ago, days before the navy began its fruitless depth-charge barrage and sonar search...
...March 22, after all our efforts to negotiate with Iranian officials had proved fruitless, Mondale, Vance and I had a full briefing from our military leaders about the latest plans for a rescue mission, which were much more feasible than those presented at the outset of the ordeal. But they still needed more work, and I was not yet convinced that we should proceed...
There was no prospect for success if Begin and Sadat stayed apart; and their meetings had now become fruitless because the two men were too personally incompatible to compromise on the issues facing them. There was only one thing to do, as dismal and unpleasant as the prospect seemed: I would try to bring Sadat and Begin together for an extensive negotiating session with...