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Iranian officials insist that this imposing military machine is needed to protect the Persian Gulf and its international oil fleets, and to fight off any possible Soviet invasion of Iran, until, they hope, reinforcements from the West could arrive. The generals see the current dissent as part of a grand Communist design, linked to Russian moves on the Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, a lot of the most sophisticated equipment, including British-made Chieftain tanks and F-4 Phantoms, was deployed around the capital rather than along the Soviet border, obviously to help protect the Shah...
...early for Arabs and Israelis to discuss the final borders in the disputed areas, because most Arabs insist on a return to the 1967 boundaries, which would not be sound under today's "conditions," Gur said...
Blum and her team insist that the time had come for women to organize and lead an ascent. This, also, is an absurd way to achieve equality. Skill, not sex should determine who leads a climb. If women have the requisite skill, fine. By all means they should be encouraged to gain leadership. But they also have to bear in mind that, as females, they are a climbing minority...
This means that if the South African government is pressed for cash, Manufacturers Hanover will obligingly give them all the time they need to repay their loans. Surely the bank could insist that the government repay on schedule--the government would not dare default. Yet Manufacturers Hanover, rather than putting pressure on the apartheid regime by withholding loans, helps that regime out of a tight spot--a role that U.S. banks have played for far too long in South Africa. The University claims to oppose such behavior by banks--yet now we find members of the Corporation trying to justify...
Some Americans agree. Writing in the current Foreign Affairs, two officers of the Boston Consulting Group, a private management study firm, place the blame for the trade imbalance on a lack of aggressiveness among U.S. exporters. They insist that over the past ten years America has steadily lost its share of the Japanese import markets for most manufactured goods and that, whatever the barriers and for whatever reasons, the U.S. has been supplying a smaller and smaller part of what Japan does in fact import...