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...Syrians in the negotiations convinced U.S. diplomats that the Assad government was not interested in a fair compromise. Said a discouraged U.S. diplomat: "The Syrians are making demands designed, in effect, to steal the legitimacy of the Lebanese government." Their real aim, in the U.S. view, is to hasten Gemayel's demise and replace him with a government that Syria can control...
...cost of the labor that goes into making a man's suit is $2. New York's garment industry ? or Philadelphia's, or Chicago's ? cannot compete with that. But what share of the American market do the Chinese plan to capture? And do we wish to hasten or slow the Chinese experiment in transition...
...national movements, leaders hasten to add, couldn't have gotten this far without constant pressure from student groups whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed they say the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparkled by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...national movements, leaders hasten to add, couldn't have gotten this far without constant pressure from student groups, whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...should continue to sell arms and spare parts to Iran. If we do not, someone else will, probably the U.S.S.R. In addition, the interminable war between Iran and Iraq creates a heavy drain on Iran's economy, which can only hasten the demise of Khomeini's government...