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...Faisal because he had been refused permission to live abroad on account of his dissolute ways. Inevitably, radical newspapers in some Arab capitals implied that the prince had been a tool of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen cy. In light of Washington's well-documented concern for keep ing King Faisal's friendship, the accusation seemed absurd...
...most eloquent moments, Prince Fahd speaks of turn ing Saudi Arabia into the Middle East's most advanced wel fare state. Like the late King, he feels the country should be run in a paternalistic and authoritarian style - and that political evolution should be deliberately paced. "Our approach is ex actly opposite to that of Atatürk of Turkey," Fahd told friends recently. "Atatürk imposed changes on his people from the top. We try to act as a catalyst, giving the people a glimpse of change and letting them decide to accept...
...found Professor Walzer's remarks on the need for a long-run U.S. presence in the Middle East rather curious, partly because he used the phrase "learn[ing] the right lessons from the Vietnam War." This is a variant of the phrase "learning the wrong lessons [from the Vietnam war]" which happened to be the title of an editorial by the new editors of The New Republic (Feb. 1st) in which a tortuous argument is offered in defense of the irresponsible proposal by Prof. Robert Tucker of Johns Hopkins University for a U.S. military seizure of the Arabian oilfields...
...been living with a presumption of continuing emergency. A vanity in crisis survival has developed. Eisenhower, that least energetic of Chief Executives, talked about crusades; Johnson declared a war on poverty; the Kennedys thrilled over the technological gadgetry of crisis situation rooms that made macho solutions more tempt ing. The public has come to demand outsize Presidents, and then to be disappointed with them. Think of it: this man might have to press the button - though for nearly 30 years no one has pressed the button. Summit meetings have been dramatized as if the drawn-out process of wary reconciliation...
...into one of the few major graphic artists in Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift assemblies of images, and his rest less improvisation tested the limits of defining a print. The latest result includes some of the most remark able graphic images made by a liv ing artist: Rausehenberg's Hoar frost suite, including Mule (see color page...