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Do you know what is happening in Lebanon? To be able to understand the Lebanese problem, one must go back far in history. At the end of World War I, the French Army occupied Lebanon and Syria, and the English Army Palestine. At this moment there was not what is...
Along the 7,863-mile Pacific littoral, where "coastline consciousness" is probably higher than anywhere else in the U.S., the Interior Department is planning to open 1.3 million acres on the outer continental shelf to oil exploration. This is sure to set the stage for another classic confrontation between the...
The point he made most emphatically was a dramatic one?and one that Moscow expected, and feared, would be his main message to President Carter: that Sino-American rapprochement should be turned into an explicit anti-Soviet alliance. Stressing Sino-American ties, Teng argued that the two nations share a...
Winston Churchill once referred to southern Europe as "the soft underbelly" of the continent. Three decades later, his anatomical description has fresh currency and a new political meaning. Scarcely six months ago, the corners of the southern tier-Portugal and Greece -were firmly controlled by militantly anti-Communist dictatorships. Not...
Three out of four Americans live in the nation's seaboard regions. By the end of the century, millions more will be drawn to the coastline, especially to the relatively unspoiled Pacific littoral. From San Diego's golden beaches to Bellingham's chilly inlets, home builders and...