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...goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure its safety. Israeli gunboats intercepted a ferryboat on its run between Cyprus and Beirut last week and brought it to the Israeli port of Haifa. Authorities detained nine passengers, most of them Lebanese Shi'ites who had just returned from Iran. Israeli officials insist Israel will not turn southern Lebanon into a "North Bank," but Defense Minister Moshe Arens admits that a complete pullback is "going to take a little time...
Fund spokesmen insist that their unpopular conditions are necessary to restore economic health and replenish the IMF's revolving pool of resources. "The fund does not impose any measures," says an official in Washington. "Reality does. Ideally, a country forms its own policy and comes to consensus itself on what needs to be done, and then the fund supports that. Many of the success cases are those in which that has happened." There have indeed been successes over the years. Two notable case histories...
...despite the mythos of such events as Woodstock, Altamont, Jim Morrison's death, and the Summer of Love in San Francisco, rock has always been little more than entertainment or release for the majority of Americans. Why, then, must Palmer insist on making the Stones significant, when it is easier--and probably more gratifying--just to appreciate their music...
...nuclear arms, but it is significant that Zamyatin did not declare as a precondition to a summit that the U.S. remove its missiles from Europe (the Soviets broke off the intermediate-range arms talks when the U.S. deployed its Pershing Us). It is equally noteworthy that Reagan did not insist that the Soviets return to the arms talks before he would go to a summit...
National Education Association President Mary Hatwood Futrell argues that Georgia's move merely "underscores the fact that teachers' salaries are noncompetitive with industry. We don't need to go outside this country to find bright people to teach math and science." Georgia officials insist they see German teachers as a short-term solution. Says Barren...