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American officials say privately that something like an interim solution?reduced, equal deployments on both sides with the vague, nonbinding espousal of zero as a long-term goal???might be possible later, but not now. They do not want to give even the hint of an official endorsement before the West German elections, lest the U.S. appear to be leaving Helmut Kohl, a strong public supporter of the zero option, out on a limb...
...where 350 million people now live. Says Mient-Jan Faber, 40, the lanky, jeans-clad leader of the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council (I.K.V.), which serves as a model to anti-nuclear organizations elsewhere in Western Europe: "Arms control, the step-by-step approach, has not worked. Our overall goal???all nuclear weapons out of Europe?will be a long process, but it can begin here." Says Volkmar Deile, secretary of Action for Reconciliation, one of West Germany's most influential peace groups: "Talking to the superpowers about disarmament is like talking to drug dealers about stopping drug deliveries...
...French-speaking voters gave 41% of their ballots, enough to form a majority government in the province, to the left-of-center Parti Québécois, which only ten years ago was a splinter group on the fringe of provincial politics. Independence for Quebec is the party's main goal???indeed, its raison d'être. Some time next year the government is expected to hold a province-wide referendum. How the issue will be worded is uncertain, but in essence the voters of Quebec will be asked in a plebiscite whether or not their province should take the first steps...
...simply thrusting their way into public consciousness, some terrorists have achieved their primary goal???attention. No faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization has ever successfully attacked a military target in Israel; furthermore, the P.L.O. was utterly humiliated by Jordan's King Hussein when he threw them out of his country in the "Black September" of 1970. But subsequent terrorist acts contributed to the P.L.O.'s high profile and credibility, at least within the Arab world, as an anti-Zionist fighting unit. Other nationalist terrorist organizations have gained recognition in much the same...
...moderate rate of just under 5%, moving up to a fairly brisk 6% or so in the latter part of the year. At that pace, unemployment would drop from the current 8.1% to just under 7% at year's end. That would still be far above Carter's ultimate goal???he hopes to cut unemployment to 6½% in 1977 and to 4½% by 1980. But the economy would certainly be moving fairly well and starting to generate the extra tax revenues that Carter says he will need to finance his package of social benefits...