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...appropriate. These people need our country. That fact alone justifies their admission. They do not want welfare -they want independence. They still look upon the U.S. as a land of opportunity and are anxious to work for it. We must keep the door open, rather than guard it, lest we destroy ourselves by ignoring the needs of others...
...little background in making economic policy. He must be tutored. "Most Presidents at first would really like economics to go away," says Pechman. No such luck. But no sooner is a President put in the economics classroom than he is warned not to get too involved in details lest he miss the forecast for the trees. Carter has been told he may be learning too many economic details...
...Washington, the Carter Administration nervously urged the South Korean military leaders to exercise "maximum restraint," lest their actions lead to "dangerous miscalculation by external forces"-meaning, of course, the rulers of Communist North Korea. Washington had no reason to think that the Pyongyang government was in fact trying to take advantage of Seoul's troubles, but clearly the crisis carried with it the seeds of danger for both South Korea and its allies...
...feel it is my responsibility to ensure that my children and future generations of our family will know in detail what happened to their German ancestors in the '30s and '40s. My parents can never forget; I will never forget; nor should any of us ever forget, lest it happen all over again...
...Iranians understand the Koran, states Sri Lanka's ascetic M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a teacher in the mystical Sufi movement, now living in Philadelphia, "they will release the hostages immediately." Muhaiyaddeen has sent Khomeini three fervent epistles, urging him to free the captives and repent of his vengeance lest Islam be further disgraced before the world. Even in Iran, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, second only to Khomeini in popularity, privately considers the embassy seizure an "abuse of Islam" and has told a confidant: "I have never been so worried in my life -not only about Iran but also about Islam...