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...ease international tensions. The first test of the Soviets' intentions will be their performance when the SALT II talks are resumed (no date has been set as yet). Carter hopes to conclude a 10% reduction in the current ceilings for strategic missiles and heavy bombers. Though the Soviets publicly insist that they will not make political concessions in order to increase trade, one Carter adviser says, "Every indication he's got so far?mostly indirectly?is that the Soviets are very interested in cooperating...
Initial Ministate. Many Israeli officials agree that Palestinians should eventually be involved in any peace talks, but they also insist that the P.L.O. must be excluded−even though its leaders are currently talking in unexpectedly moderate tones. Last week P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat told a meeting of his 42-member Central Committee in Damascus that the Palestinians are now prepared to accept as their initial goal the creation of a Palestinian ministate. As most Palestinians now envision it, the state would consist...
...P.L.O. parliament meeting scheduled in Cairo next month that they will not be allowed back if they go. Even Israeli doves are skeptical about whether Arafat, who once threatened to throw the Israelis into the sea, can be trusted with peaceable statecraft. For that reason, the Israelis will insist in any negotiations over the West Bank's future that they be allowed to maintain military posts along the Jordan River, which separates Israel proper from the West Bank. As an added protection against the future, they have so far established 68 settlements in the occupied territories, spotted roughly along...
Times editors insist that they did not set out to do an exposé of the Long Beach paper. They dispatched Reporters George Reasons and Mike Goodman to the city six months ago, they claim, solely to investigate a rash of municipal scandals and fiscal problems. "The situation we found was a surprise to all of us," says Times Editor William Thomas. "But [the paper] was a natural focus, so we wrote it that way. I can say that I have never seen a story quite like this...
...were scored by the centrist New Liberal Club, led by Yohei Kono, 39, who broke from the L.D.P. last June. Of the 25 candidates Kono fielded, 17 won, an astonishing triumph for a new party in Japan. Kono told TIME last week: "We're not socialists. But we insist on equality of opportunity. We want fair competition in business. We want a smaller and more efficient bureaucracy." Those themes and N.L.C. calls for reform of campaign finance and the school system's "examination hell" clearly struck home with the voters. The victory has made Kono a national figure...