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...veto. "We would strongly oppose any attempt to change them," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned last week. The principal U.S. objective at the debate is to prevent the Security Council from becoming the main forum for future Middle East peace efforts. Washington is determined either to maintain the step-by-step diplomatic approach that so far has achieved two Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accords and one Israeli-Syrian agreement or to return to the Geneva Conference, jointly sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which met briefly...
...founder, Minneapolis Tribune Columnist Will Jones, explains: "The whole idea is that anyone who even ventures to smoke in the presence of another person is a slob. If someone smokes and gets cancer, we say, 'Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
Owners argue that special constraints are required to maintain competitive balance. Without them, the rich teams could buy up all the talent...
...going to have to treat their people differently. They may say, 'well, to hell with it, we don't want to raise the protein consumption of our people.' Well, that's just fine. We ought to make it very hard for them, in dealing with their own people, to maintain the kind of military machine they maintain." As for nuclear strategy, Will argues that the SALT agreement "was not in our national interest. I think it was wrong to negotiate away defensive missiles. It committed us to a general nuclear strategy that is dangerous and not moral." He says...
...American employees in Angola have been moved to neighboring Zaïre, where the company is beginning offshore drilling. Gulf plans to return them to Angola when the war ends, unless its operations there are expropriated, which they may well be. In any case, Gulf officials maintain that they do not wish to support either side in a civil war, and the Ford Administration emphatically does not want the giant multinational to bankroll the pro-Soviet side...