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Testifying last week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance warned that "failure to proceed with the sales will seriously undercut the American role in the peace process and raise grave doubts about U.S. readiness to work with moderate governments in the region." General David Jones, acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured the committee that the F-15s would be equipped for defense. Israel, he insisted, would be in greater danger if Saudi Arabia turned to France for Mirage Fl fighters, which are better suited for ground attack...
...Carter Administration on a matter so related to U.S. energy needs, because Saudi Arabia is involved, could cause severe and lasting damage to Jerusalem's relations with Washington. Some influential American Jews warned the Israeli government privately that it could probably win on this issue, but at a grave cost to its special relationship with...
Captain Alex Vik, who along with Paxton was playing his last round for Harvard, shot his second straight 86. Vik found a watery grave on the sixth hole, where he had a nine. His second shot dunked into the creek that runs down the left side of the fairway. He rolled up his trousers and took a swipe at the immersed ball, but only managed to nudge it a little farther upstream. He finally splashed his fourth shot onto terra firma...
Civil disobedience reflects concern that the present system of government and industry has proven incapable of dealing with the grave threats to our environment posed by advanced technologies. In this regard it is interesting to compare the anti-nuclear movement to the anti-war movement. The latter is often accused of having radicalized people without politicizing them. That is, people came to see the war as an isolated immoral act that demanded action, but when it was over, previous demonstrators felt comfortable that the system was "working" again...
Then a member of the Asian-American Association (AAA) came along, reading a statement to the vigilers that transformed their enthusiasm into sickly panic, leaving them with grave doubts for the following day. After a brief meeting, he said, leaders of the AAA and the Black Students Association (BSA) had decided not to support the sit-out. These two United Front organizations had not been given enough input into the sit-out plan, he said, adding that many in the organizations did not clearly understand the objectives of a sit-out. Furthermore, minority students would be more vulnerable to discipline...